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After reading and commenting on Tony's review thread about the Behringer Bass amp, it got me to thinking. Since Behringer is definitely a frugal priced option for amps and effects, how many of you are using their products?
What do you have and what do you use? Do you use it for gigging, rehearsal, or just playing and practicing around the house?
What are your impressions of their equipment?
The only peice of theirs that I personally have and use is their DIs. We use them for all our acoustic instruments, keyboards, and for the electronic drums. The acoustic instruments are an acoustic guitar, Takamine, and a pretty decent guitar, and a high range ukele. They both sound pretty good through the PA. The keyboards and drums are both pro quality electronic instruments, the drums are Roland and the keyboard is a Kurzweil. I think they sound pretty dang good. And we use one of the powered PA speakers, B212 as a monitor for the horn players. With my IEMs I don't really hear that much, but they do not complain.
We've been using this stuff for a couple years without any failures and it seems to be providing us with quality sound.
So, who else is using Behringer's frugal equipment? | | Your wish is at my command
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At the moment, I am not. But I owned one of their headphone amps for many years and have no complaints. Also liked the K1800FX and Bugera V22 when I had them. | | Check out my music: http://willchentrio.com | http://www.reverbnation.com/willchentrio |
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Joined: 12/5/2009(UTC) Posts: 1,312 Points: 3,960 Location: Northern Tier, EEUU
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Now that I think on it, Behringer doesn't have much cachet... which, actually, is a GREAT cause of Frugal used prices. GC & MGR have used Behringer products going cheap. And they don't push the "authorized dealer" thing as hard as most brands. I had to dig around a few minutes before locating the page: http://www.behringer.com/EN/Buy-Now/index.aspxIn the Minneapolis area, there are nine dealers; this includes four GCs & two PA-leasing companies, & NONE of the guitar shops I normally haunt. I do like how they "hived off" the Bugera brand: tube amps & speakers, PERIOD. A very bright marketing move. Strangely, though I'm rapidly becoming a Behringer fan, I only own two items: the BX4500H bass head, & the HellBabe wah. (I've got like eleven Roland/Boss products.) What first got my attention was the wah, which I immediately opened up. Though it's plastic (albeit heavy-duty), the guts have a meticulous layout & VERY high build quality. And for under $100, it's got a LOT of tweakability, something I'd expect to see in a $200+ boutique pedal. Given that cost-effective quality, I'm ready to make my first serious mix board a Behringer, & to dig into their rackmount gear. Here's an oddity I've noted in researching reviews. If you buy a piece of Behringer gear, & it craps out while under warranty, it's highly likely they'll just send you a new one.  See, what's odd about this is that many companies want the dead item so they can figure out what went wrong; apparently, Behringer figures that they've already moved past it, & it looks like the dead gear is simply destroyed. Possibly a unique business model. And you just gotta love a company that sets out to produce the world's biggest iPhone dock: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12...-dock-goes-consumer-wit/ ...and only $30,000!!!
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Egads, I have more of their pedals these days than anyone else's. I haven't gigged in ages, but I've not had any reliability issues using them at home, often for 2-3 hours a night. I've got several of their dirt boxes, along with a digital multi-FX, a digital reverb, tuner (which I rarely use), wah pedal, (also rarely used) and a REALLY neat little harmonizer /pitch shift that does super cool things when you figure out how to tell it which key you're in!.. I've also got their little pedal amp emulator and the acoustic simulator. (which I think sucks, but I think every one I have tested sucked, so for the lousy $20 or so that it cost me, meh) I've probably got others I'm forgetting, but I'm too lazy to go pull out all of the brief cases that they're set up in and look. Oh, I do have one of their compressors and a digital delay (which is also on the little multi FX unit).. The compressor is so-so, with my MXR (I think) getting the most use for that. I use the multi FX for flange and phaser mostly, but it has numerous little options on it. (one at a time, sadly). The Chorus is fine for what I want, but I cannot help but compare it to my DOD from the 80s, which in my mind still sounds better than anything else ever if you're only running mono... Rose colored headphones, I'm sure.
peace.
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Joined: 12/8/2010(UTC) Posts: 223 Points: 681 Location: Oz
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WHERE do I start?
LOVE Behringer!
Know the blokes at AU head office personally. Great bunch!
Lets see, I had 2 Bugeras (V5 & V55HD) recently sold the V5, after buying a HT-5.
Got a Xenyx 1204 Mixing desk for recording.
A DGI21 guitar/amp moddeler for low volume practicing etc.
2 C1 condenser mics.
BB06 Pedal board.
A pair of MS40 monitor speakers
AND
A VT999 Vintage Tube Monster O/D pedal! Absolutely brilliant O/D, way better than many imagine.
It all works, does its job well, and havent had any issues with them, bar the initial teething probs with the Bugera.
Behringer ROCKS!
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Interesting company.
I have a V-Amp2 and a Bass V-Amp2.
I originally thought that they seemed flimsy as hell - fragile, brittle plastic. I've actually broken one input jack (plastic mounted on plastic) and partly pulled the wire out of a footswitch. Each took some effort. Otherwise, the units seem sturdier than originally thought. I know Pod's are metal-cased, but I would no sooner drop one or step on it than the Behringer, due to the plastic knobs and jacks and led screens. And the Behringer pots/encoders seem fairly sturdy in hindsight.
The UI's are among the most straightforward in the modeling business. Vypyrs, Digitech GNXs, some Boss units - all drive me nuts with the function overloading and obtuse labeling. But the B's show you exactly what is going on.
The sounds are a mixed bag. There are only one or two amp models on the Bass V-Amp that I would use - partly due to my tastes, but there are 5 or 6 on the guitar version that I like quite a bit. Probably not as strong, either as copies of their namesake amp models or as general tube amp emulators, as Line 6, Johnson, Peavey, Digitech - but often close enough for home practice, a bit of recording, and some jam session use. Can't quite see myself performing with these unless there is a higher quality, full-function foot pedal available. And they are not particularly responsive to rolling off the guitar's volume and cleaning up. A bit too much processing going on.
I paid $100 for both about 5 years ago, including foot-switches, power supplies, and neat little carrying bags. Overall, a very happy purchaser.
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Joined: 12/28/2009(UTC) Posts: 386 Points: 1,164 Location: New Carlisle, Ohio
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Though it seems a few of us have or had some Behringer equipment, and were for the most part satisfied with it. But no one that has posted on this forum has used one of their guitar amps for gigging.
I may make it a priority to get one of their amps just to use at rehearsal or possibly gigging.
This could be a decent experiment. | | Your wish is at my command
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Well, I gigged the Bugera V22 a couple times. Technically a separate brand but their parent company is Behringer. | | Check out my music: http://willchentrio.com | http://www.reverbnation.com/willchentrio |
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I did a search on Behringer guitar amps, and only a few came up, and most were Acoustic Amps.
Looks like most the Eggs in the Guitar amp basket are the Bugera Products.
T
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I count Bugera as Behringer, to me, they are one and the same. I think they are all manufactured in what is called Behringer city in China. Basically the same plant. But they still make some guitar amps under the Behringer label. I don't know why but I'm just wanting to give them a try. There is a lot of prejudice against Behringer products, not so much on this forum, but a lot of the guys I know that play won't even give their stuff a try just because of the name. I've only seen one Behringer guitar amp in use at a show and that guy sounded pretty good so I'm just curious how they sound. I figured that general attitude shared by members of this forum is more open minded to frugally priced equipment. I know I certainly am and the older I get I feel like I'm even more unbiased when it comes to equipment. Maybe I'll try the bay and see if I can get a used amp at a decent price. Tony's take is pretty accurate and I think can get a used one fairly cheap.
As far as the Bugera tube amps are concerned, I think if there were as much fervor as there are for Fender and Marshall, they can sound just as good as anything. How many websites are dedicated to the big 2 amp makers and modifying them. There are a lot of guys that buy a Fender or Marshall and then upgrade the tubes and the speaker and then actually do circuit upgrades and mods. If we gave the Bugera products as much attention I think we could get similar results from those amps as well. | | Your wish is at my command
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