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minusone
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Okay, first off I am *not* a behringer bashing gear snob.
I just got (today) my T1951 Tube parametric, and have been playing with it for about 4 or 5 hours and I would like to submit this brief review (more like a set of comments not in any logical order).
Appearance: I know... who gives a rat's arse, but hey, the damn thing looks cool. Silver, shiny, "retro" lookin (my girlfriend liked it most because it reminded her of some old Ed Wood movie).
Installation: like installing a compressor... I inserted into bus 3/4 on my mackie 32x8
Functionality: Well, its a 4-band parametric EQ, useful for, well all the things you use an outboard parametric EQ for, correction (notch and shelving), sound modeling, post-prod etc
Sound: To my ears it has fattened up my preliminary mixes quite well. I record everything to my Mackie MDR 24/96... I recorded some guitar (using a Johnson J-Station and PreSonus BlueTube), acoustic/electric 4-string bass (ditto), drums (Clavia ddrum4 - through the BlueTube (which by the way is an amazing way to add more "presence" to Clavia's already amazing e-kit)).
At first the controls were tough to read, and upon first knob-twisting session I didn't notice hardly any change... in fact I didn't notice any change (then I found the "in/out" switch for each band -- all bands were "out"). So I flicked it on, turned up the input level and immediately heard mud!
It took a bit of knob-twisting to set things right... the middle bands are, to me anyway, the most useful, as digital recordings are always lacking in that department... to my ears anyway.
The lower end bands did help tighten up the bass and kick (which is always a problem for me).
Because this is a tube device, and I tend to go ga ga over tubes, it does make noise... not as much as some other tube devices... but with some compression and a bit of gate, its managable... afterall, a little noise is good IMHO... it makes the music more real, not so sterile and lifeless.
Well, that's my little review. Behringer may make sucky mixers (which I would never ever buy... i'm a dedicated mackie-freak, been using them for almost 10 years)... but I've had their composer for 5 years and this unit has found itself a nice home in my rack.
I just got (today) my T1951 Tube parametric, and have been playing with it for about 4 or 5 hours and I would like to submit this brief review (more like a set of comments not in any logical order).
Appearance: I know... who gives a rat's arse, but hey, the damn thing looks cool. Silver, shiny, "retro" lookin (my girlfriend liked it most because it reminded her of some old Ed Wood movie).
Installation: like installing a compressor... I inserted into bus 3/4 on my mackie 32x8
Functionality: Well, its a 4-band parametric EQ, useful for, well all the things you use an outboard parametric EQ for, correction (notch and shelving), sound modeling, post-prod etc
Sound: To my ears it has fattened up my preliminary mixes quite well. I record everything to my Mackie MDR 24/96... I recorded some guitar (using a Johnson J-Station and PreSonus BlueTube), acoustic/electric 4-string bass (ditto), drums (Clavia ddrum4 - through the BlueTube (which by the way is an amazing way to add more "presence" to Clavia's already amazing e-kit)).
At first the controls were tough to read, and upon first knob-twisting session I didn't notice hardly any change... in fact I didn't notice any change (then I found the "in/out" switch for each band -- all bands were "out"). So I flicked it on, turned up the input level and immediately heard mud!
It took a bit of knob-twisting to set things right... the middle bands are, to me anyway, the most useful, as digital recordings are always lacking in that department... to my ears anyway.
The lower end bands did help tighten up the bass and kick (which is always a problem for me).
Because this is a tube device, and I tend to go ga ga over tubes, it does make noise... not as much as some other tube devices... but with some compression and a bit of gate, its managable... afterall, a little noise is good IMHO... it makes the music more real, not so sterile and lifeless.
Well, that's my little review. Behringer may make sucky mixers (which I would never ever buy... i'm a dedicated mackie-freak, been using them for almost 10 years)... but I've had their composer for 5 years and this unit has found itself a nice home in my rack.
