What Behringer gear does not suck ?!

[wallawannabe]

I would agree that the ADA8000 and the Powerplay are both decent, usable pieces of gear.

I also heard the Truths are good too, for the money. Repeat with me. For the money.

[ampsarus]

I just got a dead Bherry on my hands. I got another MDX-2100 off eBay, this one was $20+ shipping and it no workie, DOA. I hear a relay inside clicking back and forth like a hummingbird. Those older units have "real" XLR's and linear power supplies and normally thick & strong chassis, but this one is dead despite all that.

It's a bummer but I still consider myself ahead on the value game. -1

[teknobryan]

BCR2000 does not suck.

[Jidis]

Originally Posted by mamm7215

Umm, I think they did this with their Xenyx series...

AFAIK, they haven't got the rack pre/FW interface stuff yet. Maybe it's still in the "design" stage.

I got a Xenyx 502 recently for a phone amp and it seems pretty solid and useful, but no phantom. The board in it is labeled for the Eurorack UB502 which looks identical but is a different color. Looks like maybe they changed it to target some of the visually impaired Mackie buyers. By the comments here, looks like their multi-phone amp is OK too. I may look for that if I can't quiet the transformer any in my Furman.

That cable tester thing you guys seem to like is supposed to be one of the direct clones of someone else's box:

All Things Audio » Behringer Clones: CT100 Cable Tester

I'll ditto what a couple in this thread have said on the budget Alesis mixers too. I got a Studio12R from someone a while back which I don't quite trust. Feels too fragile and gets dirty pots and such.

[Joe_K]

I bought the 4 channel headphone amp about 6 months ago.

It is all I've ever owned by Behringer, and I surprised myself by choosing it. I knew it had to be a copy of something, but at the time didn't know what and I needed something fast. It has been OK. It isn't a critical piece.

[gollumsluvslave]

BCF2000 - now got an MCU, but it's not much of an improvement really

[gollumsluvslave]

BCF2000 - now got an MCU, but it's not much of an improvement really

Powerplay Headphone amp - does what it says on the tin.


That's all i've had from then and i've been happy with the value.

[bachconnelly]

Anyone here ever used the Combinator? I've found it has its place on the 2-Mix a lot...

[optix]

+1 on the ADA8000, I'm really happy with mine.

I'm also using (borrowing) an MDX1200 comp/exciter - this is one of the German units. I'm pretty happy with it - just bought another one for only £35.

[bamm]

thumbsup (Studio) Powerplay Headphone Amps (x2)

thumbsup (Live/Studio) We've had a good run with the MX3282A boards (discontinued of course). Great routing and 6+2 aux sends. Pre's aren't much.

(Studio) Just replaced our Truth B2031a's. Way too fatiguing and cloudy (sorry, we tried Uli). Hello Blue Sky's!

thumbsup (Live) The EP2500 amps are just plain good and disposable at that price!

[AllAboutTone]

headphone amp is worth the buck, and the cable tester.
I was at GC today and saw a guy walking out of the store with a ultra gain tube preamp....omg, id rather have nothing.dfegad

[jude]

Originally Posted by tuf

Erm, the 3216 is hardly an 01v96, but I love the meters on the DDX. Yamaha should do a role reversal and copy B's metering for the 01v!

Tuf

ive got a 3216 and a dm1000 and to be perfectally honest i prefer to mix with the 3216. the automation is a truckload easier to work out and for what i write (DnB and house) the effects are perfect, well other than the reverbs lol

[rulesforradicals]

Okay, some folks like Behringer, some hate them. For the money, its hard to beat them, but for the sound...?

Well, I have a B1 condenser mic that cost me less than a hundred dollars. It sounds better than my Oktava 319 modded, just as good as my Joe Meek JM 47 and only slightly--that's right: slightly--less than my either of my Neumanns. I have a couple of vocalists who insist on using it when they come over.

I have a DDX3216 mixer that has worked flawlessly for over 4 years--yeah, the inputs can be noisy but only if you crank 'em all the way up--and how many times do you have to do that with any piece of gear? Most people are going to mic pre on the way in before the signal hits the mixer anyway. Or at least I do. And this mixer was one-eighth the price of a Yamaha digital mixer, only the Behringer has twice the busses and more built in effects. (With that kinda savings one can buy a Neumann mic--hmmm...)
One day I just might buy another DDX3216 and mod it out: better pres and aux ins would be nice.

I have no complaints on their compressors other than the gate doesn't work as quetly as I would like, but since I only use that feature once a year or so its no big deal.

I have one of their DIs--it works fine but since I build my own I hardly use it anymore.

I find that most people who knock Behringer haven't used them and its unfair to compare them to anything costing five times as much--would you compare a Ford to a Jaguar? Either will get you to work, but more people own Fords don't they?

That said I am biased against two other manufacturers: I won't buy anything by Peavey or Nady, no matter how cheap it is.

[AllAboutTone]

Powerplay seems to work great

[zul_nalury]

I own B2031. it ended to be speaker in my home theater setup.It just OK for song writing hahaha... for tracking or mixing, it useless. Opps... This thread on "What Behringer gear does not suck ?!"....Ok.

[greyskull]

i have a powerplay.
it works.
it was cheap,
i might have to put a sticker over the logo
lol

[MeSoHornplayer]

I agree. I got the Powerplay for a temporary solution until I could get something else, but I haven't seen the need to replace it. It's definitely a set it and forget it kind of device.

[Lasermonkey]

I have to say, the MDX2000 Composer compressor I bought off eBay for £26 doesn't sound bad at all. I've been liking it on drums.

[lowfreq33]

I think if they designed a piece that was supposed to suck, it wouldn't.

[nick x0x]

i "inherited" a pair of first run 2031a truths....i gotta say...not bad....a little bit of port noise when i really slam them with low octave bass...but thats to be expected i guess from speakers that only drop to 50hz(or so the spec sheet would have us believe)...although i havent done alot on them yet...what i have done has translated alot better in the club/car/boombox then the stuff i did on krk rp5s...granted i mainly do electronic music...but they are definately better for the money then the krk, samsons, and alesis monitors...i do think the events are a little better from what ive heard....id like to score some events down the line and use those as "a" monitors and use the 2031s as "b" monitors...granted...im not saying any of these monitors can compete against first run hr824s, adams, dynaudios, or genelecs...but i just dont have the extra thousand(s) to spend...i gotta say, the 2031s do the job, and if u hit the mix on them...its gonna translate well...not to mention id like to spend those extra thousands on more modular synth gear...and if need be, i can get 824s or a nice pair of jbls, just cuz im starting to build up a nice modular system, ppl will bring better monitors to me, just for the chance to play on the modular.

im looking to get an ADA8000 in the future...i think it'll make a good companion to my i88x...it'll be nice to send 16 channels back to my console....and use the extra ins as dedicated stereo returns to the daw from my EFX rack.

i have autocom ...i have mixed feelings about this piece.....as a compressor...its pretty much garbage...but as an effect...its cool...i like to use it to put extra click on some of my synthesized drums.

[andychamp]

I guess if they made a vacuum cleaner, it wouldn't suck.
On a more serious note, one of their Shark DSP mini-preamps has come in handy a couple of times.

[cjogo]

Prime believer in their DEQ 2496 & the powerplay phone amps.

[Finnish]

BCF2000 is very ok for the price

[Akoppenheffer]

I have the Truth monitors and they're good for the money. They are now on my keyboard rig for reference monitors because they got replaced by my new Event ASP8s!!

[Stiff]

Originally Posted by Finnish

BCF2000 is very ok for the price

Actually, one could say that it's even unique for the price...

Funny thing happened the other day, I had to record a lead guitar without an amp. Sure, no problem, plug it straight in and launch Amplitube (which I normally like BTW) but I just couldn't get a good tone for the song! The saver - BEHRINGER V-AMP!

[bleeding ears]

ADA8000 or whatever it is called. Clock it with a Big Ben and it is brilliant.

If you got a Big Ben, why oh why do you even own an ADA8000?!

The behringer graphic EQ's are OK for live work, providing you don't use the digital EQ. Or expect the feedback analyser to work. Or the Limiter.

[TheRealRoach]

I like my HA4400. 4-channel headphone distro/amp. Only a hundred bucks.

[james.ca]

Originally Posted by Billster

A lot of manufacturers produce even more nice sounding, good looking and reasonable priced gear with a right to live. Maybe they have one unit that does not live up to the expectations, but in general these manufacturers do a good job.

Now, complete different story with Behringer. They offer a lot of bad sounding, cheap looking and not reasonable priced gear (noone pays for dogshit, right ?!). But does Behringer also offer one or even two units that do not live up to the expectation since they actually do sound good ? Hmmm, nothing comes to my mind...

Can you guys think of anything ?

Bill

Why open up Pandora's box if you don't have to !
The problem with Behringer is it's a gamble buy half the stuf workhalf don't and most owner wanto gt rid of it ASP .
As they say let the lion sleep .
There so much other stuff you blow your on cash that works and it's better quailtiy .
James

[drmad69]

*FYI*

I don't think it's mentioned here, but after loving my ada8000's for a couple years.
I finally found out the my external fx phase inversion problem with nuendo
was my ada8000's.


*THEY ARE PHYSICALLY PHASE INVERTED, A HORRIBLE MANUFACTURING BUG*

so, that's what you get from behringer..

But it sounds great.. for being 100% wrong..

[Audionaut]

This thread is the Gearslutz equivalent of posting Polaroids of yourselves with fat chicks! Stop the insanity!

What, me?
Sure that guitar center guy talked me into a Behringer Composer once... but that was in '94. I was just starting out and everybody else was doing it.
I wish that I could say it sucked completely, but it seemed to do its job pretty well(way more blinky LEDs than the rest of my gear).

...Besides, even if it did suck, how could anyone tell... it was patched between my Mackie mixer and the inputs on my blackface ADAT.