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scorpio01169
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the thing is behringer is for us poor peeps is what walmart is compared to hollisters.....lol
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jamacian
Banned
I agree about the ADA8000, very good unit. Sounds as good as my MOTU pres/converters...maybe a little cleaner.
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vx2000
New member
Well,
Let's face it, as much as people crap on Behringer, their sales have been quite good. There's definately a market for their stuff.
They sometimes amaze me on how much you get for the $$.
Does it hold up, well... I guess it depends. A lot of their stuff cosmetically seems cheap, although the electronics are fair to decent.
I find this true for their V-VERB. The knobs feel very cheap.
But, what surprised me was how good this unit sounds.
It sits right along my higher ticket reverbs and has "that" high end sound.
Believe me, I was surpised. I went out and bought three more at $135.
Let's face it, as much as people crap on Behringer, their sales have been quite good. There's definately a market for their stuff.
They sometimes amaze me on how much you get for the $$.
Does it hold up, well... I guess it depends. A lot of their stuff cosmetically seems cheap, although the electronics are fair to decent.
I find this true for their V-VERB. The knobs feel very cheap.
But, what surprised me was how good this unit sounds.
It sits right along my higher ticket reverbs and has "that" high end sound.
Believe me, I was surpised. I went out and bought three more at $135.
TimN
New member
I've been using their stuff (mixers large and small) for years,
and I've never had any trouble. I bought an old 2442A and our band
uses it live and at the practice space--its been abused, but has never
crapped out. We mic up acoustic guitars, and that mixer has always
sounded good to me. We are also using it to record--great results
with their "crappy" pre-amps. I thought the board was screwing things
up with the recordings initially (the Behringer B-1 mic through a Xenyx
mixer), but the problem was my sound card. Guess what? I bought a
new E-mu 0404, and that $100.00 sound card (up from a $39.00 one),
along with the $60.00 Xenyx and the $100.00 B-1 is helping me record the
music that I could only dream of recording just 5 years ago. Ten years ago
I was trying to figure out (more dreaming) how to get a used multi-track
recorder. Now I can do what I want, with the music I wrote, and not
have to worry about anything.
Go do the research on the 0404--you will find people who say its
complete shit, that it never worked. Others will rave--I sure would.
Maybe I'm lucky, but I've never had trouble with any of the above.
I'm also going to make a CD with the above, and we'll see what happens.
I read an article about a guy, a producer, who used a Telefunken mic
that cost 15 grand. I'm wondering--is it really possible that that thing
is worth that kind of money? Is it really going to sound better than, say,
a mic that "merely" costs 2 grand? Sometimes you get what you pay for, and
sometimes maybe you don't. Same goes for the Behringer stuff, and any
other equipment you might buy.
P.S. I got a used DOD R 880 dual delay at a garage sale for five dollars,
complete with power supply. What a bargain! Great old analog sound
(that is to say, sometimes kinda shitty).
P.S.s. "I hate compression. It makes everything sound like a fucking
beer commercial." --Steve Albini (Someone who would know.)
and I've never had any trouble. I bought an old 2442A and our band
uses it live and at the practice space--its been abused, but has never
crapped out. We mic up acoustic guitars, and that mixer has always
sounded good to me. We are also using it to record--great results
with their "crappy" pre-amps. I thought the board was screwing things
up with the recordings initially (the Behringer B-1 mic through a Xenyx
mixer), but the problem was my sound card. Guess what? I bought a
new E-mu 0404, and that $100.00 sound card (up from a $39.00 one),
along with the $60.00 Xenyx and the $100.00 B-1 is helping me record the
music that I could only dream of recording just 5 years ago. Ten years ago
I was trying to figure out (more dreaming) how to get a used multi-track
recorder. Now I can do what I want, with the music I wrote, and not
have to worry about anything.
Go do the research on the 0404--you will find people who say its
complete shit, that it never worked. Others will rave--I sure would.
Maybe I'm lucky, but I've never had trouble with any of the above.
I'm also going to make a CD with the above, and we'll see what happens.
I read an article about a guy, a producer, who used a Telefunken mic
that cost 15 grand. I'm wondering--is it really possible that that thing
is worth that kind of money? Is it really going to sound better than, say,
a mic that "merely" costs 2 grand? Sometimes you get what you pay for, and
sometimes maybe you don't. Same goes for the Behringer stuff, and any
other equipment you might buy.
P.S. I got a used DOD R 880 dual delay at a garage sale for five dollars,
complete with power supply. What a bargain! Great old analog sound
(that is to say, sometimes kinda shitty).
P.S.s. "I hate compression. It makes everything sound like a fucking
beer commercial." --Steve Albini (Someone who would know.)
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wall of noise 9
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sdelsolray
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hmmmm.....
Well, I have always suspected that the Behringer bashers are the ones who are trying to rationalize having been screwed by paying higher prices for the other brand names on their equipment.
I have compared my Behringer equipment in sound quality and construction to brands that would be considered "elite" (that I also owned.)
Behringer wasn't the best and wasn't the worst. It was among the best BARGAINS and it sounded nearly indistinguishable from the best. If your recordings aren't winning Emmy's, it ISN'T BECAUSE YOU USED A BEHRINGER PREAMP !
If you can't hear a difference, or if the difference doesn't matter, then it just doesn't matter.