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Behringer just Won't Stop Dropping Bombz.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:45 pm
by Mike
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:46 pm
by Bacchus
Does anyone know if thiese sound the part?
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:49 pm
by Mike
Nah they just got announced at MusicMesse. Feedback from NAMM was that the first new 07 batch of releases were a level above in quality than their initial run of Boss Clones.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:51 pm
by euan
Beautiful. I think getting it right up Line6 is rather poetic.
Again I do wonder if Behringer will be in the position to buy someone out in the next few years.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:54 pm
by Mike
Why bother? They're turning over pedals faster and for less than everyone else as it is and pretty soon I won't be recommending starter guitarists anything but these stompers as their first pedals. They don't have the time consuming design & test phase to worry about - their business model is really clever. I don't care that it's not "ethical" or whatever - they are filling a hole in the market.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:59 pm
by Hurb
Thats freaking ace! i love behringer!
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:01 pm
by euan
Its business practices though. Once that have cornered the entire musical starter market and some of the medium then they will have no where to go. They can't keep growing. At that point you have to make a move up market and its much harder for someone seen to be a budget maker to move up the field.
Mackie, Soundcraft and a few others have started to move into Behringers market with some affordable and decent mixers.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:03 pm
by Mike
There's always more. They do keyboards, guitar effects and guitar cabinets mainly. There's room to expand into all flavours of guitar amplification (not just Peavey XXX, JSX and 5150 territory), fully expect them to have a tweed amp at some point. Guitars are only around the corner. They will not stop.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:23 pm
by deadonkey
i won't buy them, i bought their chorus, and the bypass sucks
tone sucker, as well as hearing swooshing chorus sounds in bypass mode. fuck that, i'd rather spend 3 times as much and not have a sucky pedal that's going to fall apart.
the effects themselves are pretty good though.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:24 pm
by Mike
yeah I'm thinking they're beginner fodder, interested to see what "better quality" means. Might be worth throwing a TB loop to put like 8 Behringer pedals in.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:25 pm
by deadonkey
yeah. i've thought of that. also, they have some funky power jack that my supplier doesn't like.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:05 pm
by Doog
deadonkey wrote: that my supplier doesn't like.
Haha, you make it sound like you get electricity from some dodgy geezer on a street corner.
"'Ere.. Johnny.. got some, uh *sniff*, 240 here you might like the look of.."
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:27 pm
by theshadowofseattle
Mike wrote:yeah I'm thinking they're beginner fodder, interested to see what "better quality" means. Might be worth throwing a TB loop to put like 8 Behringer pedals in.
I would go absolutely insane if all my pedals weren't in a TB loop. I NEED MAH TONEZ
I'm going to buy their Hyper Fuzz (which I will dub the "Hyphy Fuzz" and ghost stomp the pedal) and the Echo Park copy, and if those suck, I'm going to take the fight to Behringer.
Even if it means pursuing them all the way back to the ghetto.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:35 pm
by aphasiac
the Line6 stuff seems like an odd choice.
I wish they'd clone the Zoom analogue pedals - powerdriver, trimetal, and most importantly, UF-01 ULTRAFUZZ!!
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:41 pm
by Sloan
YES.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:01 pm
by Mike
aphasiac wrote:the Line6 stuff seems like an odd choice.
I wish they'd clone the Zoom analogue pedals - powerdriver, trimetal, and most importantly, UF-01 ULTRAFUZZ!!
No. THAT would be a stupid choice, seeing as those pedals sold so poorly they were discontinued.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:31 pm
by aen
aphasiac wrote:the Line6 stuff seems like an odd choice.
I dont think so, they'r epopular and versatile.
I'm totally getting, like, 4 of those.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:05 am
by ekwatts
Ultrashifter/Harmonist, totally sold on that one, as well as the Echo Machine. trails, man, trails. Not bad at £39, either.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:26 am
by theshadowofseattle
theshadowofseattle wrote:I'm going to take the fight to Behringer.
Even if it means pursuing them all the way back to the ghetto.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:23 am
by Mike
ekwatts wrote:Ultrashifter/Harmonist, totally sold on that one, as well as the Echo Machine. trails, man, trails. Not bad at £39, either.
it's £39?!?
