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what behringer pedals and or gear is worth owning


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honestly I think it's more like which ones aren't worth owning. They're all good as {censored} for the price. I mean if you need a capable delay and only have 30 bucks.... there's your gift from god. Is it the best delay ever, no it's probably just a clone of it :D, but for home recording stuff you can't really go wrong.

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The VT911 is a great pedal. It's one of the most affordable 12AX7 tube distortion pedals out there (in that sense, Behringer is one of the few tube pedal makers that actually got the formula right)--though you need to swap out the crappy 12AX7 for a 12AT7 and you get more volume. My only complaint is that it's pretty noisy and that the tone knob should be BANNED after the 12 o 'clock range, but with the tone knob at 9 o'clock and the gain dimed, you can really get a great Neil Young Crazy Horse type sound, really wild and ripping and tearing sounding. It's really an insane sound. What Behringer should have called this, though, is a fuzz. It's not an overdrive--still too buzzy and not smooth enough, but as a fuzz, it just rips. I'm gonna paint mine so they don't see the Behringer name on it.

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The REV2496 is the bit of kit I've been most impressed with by far. Better than any reverb pedal I've ever used and I actually prefer it to some very highly regarded processors. It's not my main reverb, but I would happily use it as such if necessary.

 

And their MX882 is a really versatile splitter/mixer which I use to put up to 3 effect processors in parallel within a loop.

 

I don't really know about longevity but I've owned the REV2496 for a couple of years now and it's never missed a beat. The MX882 is only a few months old so can't really say about that one, but it cost me

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The pink metal pedal sounds more like my Zoom TM-01 than a Metalzone, hence I highly recommend it. You'll need an OD or a compressor to get it to sustain, though.

In fact, all of the Behringer pedals I've tried so far have been awesome. They're more like mods to the supposed target pedal than copies, none of them sound like the original, just kind of similar with a new take on it. I dig it.

Edit: I just had a huge post typed up detailing how great the Truth active monitors and Truth active subwoofer are, but I lost focus from the edit dialogue menu due to a system file transfer initiating and it caused the browser to go to its home page so I lost the post. Short version: they're awesome for music listening, mixing on a budget, gaming, and watching movies. The sub won't do 30hz and below powerful bass, but it's steady down to 32hz which is just fine for anything but HT deep explosions and rumbles. They are very, very flat for the price range, and have given me no trouble with over 4500 hours of use over the course of four years.

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So I just got the Behringer DR-100 Digital Reverb today.

 

The perfect reverb hides at the extremes-I have mine set with volume/mix or whatever it is at noon, tone all the way to the left, time all the way to the right, with the plate reverb.

 

It sounds great, albeit the fact that the pedal hinge looks questionable. Sturdy enough if you don't jump on it, though, and take care of your gear. :thu:

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I have and have had quite a bit of Behringer gear...

The V-Amp Pro is a great piece for the price.

I've got a 16 channel mixer that's quite good for the price...

I got the Feedback Destroyer Pro and it works quite well...

I've also got an ADA8000 and it's awesome when paired up with my Presonus Firestudio...

 

...now the problem I have with the pedals is that they seem to require much higher mA power than other competitors...that and the fact that the power is opposite what my Boss/Line6 pedals use (center negative?) that makes it a pain in the ass to link with a daisy chain...

 

The pedals were decent for the price - but really only because of the price.

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I own and like:

Sm200 Slow Motion
Warp Distortion
VT999 Vintage Tube Monster

Ive owned and hated(and got rid of)

Vamp-X floor modeler
UV300 Vibrato
Spectrum Enhancer
UT300 Tremelo
VD-1

My bass player also has one of their 450 watt 4x10 combos thats pretty cool, if heavier than hell. Personally i think that you can do worse for the money, but its sorta hit and miss with what is good and whats not. I have never heard a worse modeler than the Vamp-X floor unit, but on the other hand the Warp Distortion is the best heavy distortion box ive ever played.

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I may have a line on the tremolo pedal cheap (can't try first) - can you tell me why you hated it? Volume drop?


Cheers,

Steve

 

 

It sounded like ass basically. It killed my signal, was pretty shrill, and was noisy. I bought it for $19 and sold it for $15 so i really wasnt out much in the end though.

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