bouldersoundguy
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I'm no knee-jerk Behringer hater. I own a DSP1100P, a DSP1124P, a DCX2496 and an ECM8000. I've installed some of their gear in local recording studios. I've used all sorts of other products, including the MX3282 and several other mixers, the quad compressor, the active DIs, speakers etc. Some of it is good stuff for the price and some of it you can't pay me to use due to sound quality or severe reliability problems. Maybe in your application equipment is handled with more care, but in my world of mobile sound for rock bands you find out pretty fast what holds up and what doesn't. Many of their smaller mixers develop problems soon after purchase. I've never had one of their active DIs make it through a show without at least intermittent signal loss. One keyboard player's amp failed routinely at gigs. The quad compressor installed at one club degraded the sound of whatever channel it was inserted on, even in bypass. You have your experience and I have mine.
And that doesn't even touch on their ethics. They are known to have copied other makers' products, right down to the circuit board layout. They had to stop making the MX8000 because it was an exact clone of the Mackie 24.8. They got caught violating FCC rules on dozens of models being imported to the US.
And that doesn't even touch on their ethics. They are known to have copied other makers' products, right down to the circuit board layout. They had to stop making the MX8000 because it was an exact clone of the Mackie 24.8. They got caught violating FCC rules on dozens of models being imported to the US.