I have a Behringer UFX1604 we use as a live PA mixer which sounds amazing for $750.
Does it sound like my Sony MXP3036 down in the studio or my 1073 preamps, no but it sounds better to my old ears than mixers we used live in the 70's & 80's.
It also will record each of the 16 channels directly to a USB/3.0 stick or USB hard drive at 44.1/24bit or 48hz 24-bit.
If the USB stick is to slow it will resolve to 16-bit 44.1 kHz. There are some 3.0 USB sticks that are too slow and dropouts will occur.
The USB stick must be able to write a minimum of 100 mb/sec. I blamed the Behringer at first for drop-outs on my first recording and then found the 3.0 USB stick we used could not write fast enough.
I was skeptical at first with the one knob compressor function but it is very useable. It has two reasonable sounding digital/delay reverbs on board.
I also have 4-channel Behringer mixers which are $50 each and we use them to drive the headphones in the studio and they work well for this task.
We have a total of 6-Behringer mixers and one has a power supply failure but it is over 3 years old and for the most part Behringer gear is disposable rather than fixable.
However, the 3 year old 16 chanel mixer that failed paid for itself. It was $400 and we simply used it to monitor back from the RADAR during the live recording process.
These tracks were mixed back in the studio via the Sony MXP3036.
I also have a pair of Behringer B210 stage monitors that have done nearly 50 dates in the last 3 years and they are still working really well.
I also have a 1/3 of an octave dual channel EQ with feedback frequency indication.
It is brilliant for live and the B210's could use a bit of EQ.
I wouldn't use it to EQ the Studio monitors but its great for setting up a simple on stage monitor mix that facilitates live recording.
A Company with such a huge product list as Behringer cannot really do it all.
We have a Behringer stereo digital reverb/delay multi-processor that never gets used. It is not user friendly and does not sound as good as my TC processors.
However, it did have a lot more variations and was better sounding than the first Micro Verbs and early DDL that started to show up in the late 70's and early 80's.
Now, you can't throw the "baby out with the bathwater".
I find they make some useful and decent sounding products and I probably have personally experienced less than 10% of their total product line.
Cheers, Dave Thomas
aamicrophones.com
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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 dog****, 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
27th August 2015
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