behringer pedal opinions from vampire freaks

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:16 am

probably not thread worthy, but i don't really care. couldn't find another place to drop it.

Behringer Pedals?

interesting justifications from some of the vampire freaks.

Eternal Whisper wrote:Haha yeah digitech is better.

I really hope mine doesn't break if I turn the nob to hard.

Brock wrote:Crap.. that's all you need to know. Stay away from them. Save up and go with BOSS pedals. And dude if i ever see you compare a behringer pedal to a boss pedal again, I'll personally come to your house and pimp slap you LOL. Not even close in comparison

MISSINGNO. · Post by **MISSINGNO.** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:02 am

All I know about those pedals is that they closely mimic the circuitry of many Boss pedals (with cheaper components). This can be a good thing or bad thing, depending on your view. As far as build quality, I'm sure they'd last so long as you don't godzilla them.

They've got a couple analog delays I think you can pick up for real cheap. I'm usually on the look out.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:35 am

I'm all for the things. The only issues I've had were the input jacks seem to spit out my cables randomly and the dd600 added a lot of noise. The chorus I sent hotrod is really cool though, no noise issues but the jacks were still a bit off.
I'd bet 90% of people that bash behringer pedals haven't even tried one out for themselves, they all buy in to Internet bullocks like the rest of the sploozers

ohyeahfuzzbear · Post by **ohyeahfuzzbear** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:55 am

I don't really get behringer bashing. Most of their stuff is very very good for the price and their analog delay is beautiful.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:57 am

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Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:58 am

one of my favourite fuzz pedals is a behringer model and it's great. fuck the behringer hate

kim · Post by **kim** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:16 am

they're cool. especially for broke noisefreaks like myself, cheap experimentation. though i must say ..i sometimes feel guilty, like buying at h&m and all..you know it was made by overworked underpaid people but what isn't these days ?

they're a cool company and are very close to their customers always on the lookout for what's being said about their stuff, following channels on youtube with people who demo their stuff and all...it's cool.

their built quality is not something to bitch about...if you do..you clearly haven't abused their pedals irl because i have and so far none of them have broken whilst my us big muff did break (well just the led..but i've never had a led break on a behringer..it's a detail..but still).
one thing though is that the blue leds they use..they look cool, but difficult when playing live and you do a lot of knob twisting because it blinds you..but you can put some hazy plastic tape over it to temper it if it's really a problem..or be lazy like me and just cover it with your thumb. haha

one time i wanted a boss delay, they didn't have them, the guy offered me a behringer delay and i said 'no thanks' being narrowminded not even giving it a shot..but i was playing bass and aimed at 'quality' pedals to not mess with my signal etc..i was a real geek about it experimenting with lineselectors and looping exspensive cables and crap...now i just don't five a fuck anymore..if a pedal is noisy (dd400 is cool, but a bit noisy) then i don't care so much anymore as i used to.

Johno · Post by **Johno** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:44 am

Don't have much experience with Behringer but i bought a Reverb Machine off Noire recently, only used it for about about an hour at home so far & not noticed any unwanted noise & the reverbs are as good as any i've had before.

Pedal feels quite solid, although i admit i am going to take care with the plastic looking jacks.

My bassist has had a couple headphone splitters from them which we have used weekly for a couple years with no complaints.

So yeah, i'd buy Behringer again.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:15 pm

They rock. If you want to snag an effect but you can't justify paying a lot for it because you won't use it that often (like I get with ring mods) the Behringer stuff gives you the option at such a great price. If you don't like it you've not paid much so it's win/win. I have a few and I'm stoked with them. My friend Ray who works in a guitar shop (that doesn't stock them) is a bit of a gear snob tried them the other week when he was round and he was blown away by them. He just assumed they'd be junk and noisy as hell.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:49 pm

Haze wrote:I'm all for the things. The only issues I've had were the input jacks seem to spit out my cables randomly

Aye, my tuner does this.

hugh · Post by **hugh** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:56 pm

MISSINGNO. wrote:They've got a couple analog delays I think you can pick up for real cheap. I'm usually on the look out.

I've got the vintage time machine. The bypass is shite, but it's okay as far as analog delay goes. Only get it if you have a bypass loop. I now realise that I'm more of a digital delay guy.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:09 pm

kim wrote:now i just don't five a fuck anymore.

LEL

for the record, i love behringer shit. thomas is exactly right. if it's something you don't know if you're going to like, it's easier to justify getting one for so cheap and being able to find out for sure.

i have the tu100 tuner, and i love it. i love that my volume pedal has a bypass for it, so i don't have to use it in the signal, because it is a bit noisy.

their pedals have actually gotten better quality since they first started producing them. i have a dd100 from like 5 years ago that is still ticking, and it has the nice red led (doesn't blind you). i've got plans to get a dd600, an ns1, the bass synth (per bacchuspauls hype), and maybe the rv400 (?).

if anyone still has one of those dd600's, i'd be interested in purchasing it. glad i'm not the only one who thinks they're class.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:14 pm

i've never bought a pedal, but the freebie i got from hurb feels solid enough. i've bought a fair bit of their stuff over the years, mixers, rack gear, etc, all totally fine.

Berto · Post by **Berto** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:19 pm

dont know what a vampire freak is, but i have a DD400 and its awesome

MISSINGNO. · Post by **MISSINGNO.** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:21 pm

Wow, talk about Behringer on the Duncan forums and and you can just hear the those guys frustratedly tapping on their keyboards.

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:46 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:
Haze wrote:I'm all for the things. The only issues I've had were the input jacks seem to spit out my cables randomly
Aye, my tuner does this.

mine does this too. I got angle cords and just but a rubber band over them to keep them in. I use that pedal a lot though. at first it didn't like picking up my e string but it seems with time it picks it up better?

glimmertwins · Post by **glimmertwins** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:31 pm

I have the Behringer CC300. It's a clone of the Boss DC-2 which is supposedly Boss' stombox format of the Dimension D. It's easily worth triple what I paid for it. As most have already said, I wouldn't count on those jacks for the long term but if you have a pedalboard you can strap it into and not be pulling the jacks constantly it'll probably last a really long time. On the other hand I bought a Behringer patchbay that should be awesome but because the jacks suck, it's not a very good buy unless you plan to use the chassis to put your own plugs in and build you own more reliable version(which I am currently considering)

johnniespring · Post by **johnniespring** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:21 pm

i got a behringer pedal it works fine. i've also got a behringer mixing desk, also works fine.