Everything else seems to be ok get what you pay for. Before we went digital on our live kit, we had behringer gates and comps, and tbh there were fine. I try to stear professional users away from it, for the above reasons, but ultimately, if you get a good working one out of the box you cannot really lose. The DCX is pretty good as a speaker management system - sure it runs out of DSP once you start adding EQ, etc but for basic set ups there great - if they break, you buy another!
I think where they fall down is reliability, if you have a "pro" product, how road tested is it really? Many environments don't have enough money for anything other than budget. I struggled to get a GL plus a pile of Behringer outboard in our local venue as it was.
I'd love to have better kit, but have to rely on my skill and that of the performers to get a good result. And I generally haven't been disappointed. Have owned three of their mixers - our has been in regular use in a church install for the last 15 years. Admittedly, 2 channels have let us down recently, but that's OK, we just stopped using them.
And when it finally dies, it'll be replaced. Very interested to see if their latest revamped offerings turn out to be OK. Especially the X line I tried to approach Behringer kit with an open mind, but after hearing the hiss of something as simple as three DI20's, I can't help but wonder if any more of their kit is so badly designed to be unusable.
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If you look after your equipment in the correct way there is no reason why is should not last. I have a Behringer Europower amp and I have had it for years and had no problem! Has anyone elsehad a problem with Behringer gear? Thanks Dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Replies 35 Created 9 yr Last Reply 9 yr. Top Posters In This Topic 2 2 3 3. And it varies per product, which could be said about any brand really.
Thanks I see the Behringer product line as a garden in a great location range of price points that has a mixture of fine fruit and weeds. The best way to avoid the weeds is to read through the treads of products that "punch above their weight" or "golden low-end treasures", or that kind of outlook. Go into the Moan Zone, and you'll find plenty of examples of people disappointed by the Behringer weeds.
That kind of stuff isn't my thing, so I'm just offering the pointer to get you into the right neighborhood. Thanks Regarding Behringer products' overall quality level: I couldn't say. But, I don't think it's a good idea to buy all of your gear from one company, regardless. I like Behringer's little utility gadgets -- chiefly mini mixers, basically because they come in handy sometimes.
I wouldn't get any of Behringer's monitors because they are just flat-out copies of other people's stuff. I know one studio designer who swears by his Behringer Truths, but I get quiet pleasure from ignoring him. I don't know anyone who uses them either. Last edited by Deleted ed8e; 6th February at AM..
Reason: Grammatical error. Anyone have first hand experience with them? One thing you might want to consider is a Xenyx USB. It doesn't have any balanced jacks except the mic , but it has a USB interface built in. And if you decided to upgrade, you could still use the as a headphone amp or something.
You may buy something at low cost and think its competitive to something more expensive but there are often build or quality issues that kill that idea. Some of their gear like mixers are actually pretty decent when you consider all the extra features they have.
On the other hand I bought one of their 12 channel mixers and used it for a year and had a channel slider fail on it. I own maybe a half dozen of their guitar pedals used mainly for a guest amp in the studio so a visitor would have some effects.
The pedals are low budget builds but the sound quality is OK so that's all that matters once its recorded. I have a buddy of mine that owns a pair of powered stage monitors and they sound exceptionally good on stage. Wouldn't mind having a pair like that myself I have an inexpensive pair of their passive monitors. I mainly use them for a backup DAW and television surround. They are neither great nor garbage, simply inexpensive monitors that sound OK for what they are.
I also have one of their Headphone amps and a mic preamp. Nothing wrong with either. The headphone amp is full fidelity and has no added noise. The preamp is about as good as anything built into an interface. Most of this gear is budget stuff and that's simply how you have to view it. I think they got a stigma by people expecting too much for nothing. I don't know why they were targeted over other gear makers. When you consider other budget gear makers, like Peavey for example, they had more duds then you can shake a stick at, but they seems to last a long time in spite of them being built with the cheapest electronic components on the market.
At least Behringer had the advantage of newer manufacturing methods which seems to have helped with their durability and the reliability of low cost parts out of china has helped quite a bit with their audio quality. Mainly the old stuff made in Germany. Also a friend of mine has an interface that's black lion modded and it's some of the best conversion I've used.
But, as already stated you get what you pay for. If you're just starting out then it's fine. I've always scoffed at the name, but over the years I've been surprisingly impressed with some of their gear. As with any manufacturer it depends on a particular, piece of kit and what you expect it to do for you. Behringer stuff is more hot or miss than most.
I pretty much built a home studio around their outboard equipment a few years ago, and use a couple of their monitors and a keyboard amp for gigging. I've never had a problem with any of it, though construction wise it's definitely in the replace rather than repair bracket, but that also now applies to previously 'good' names like Mackie and Wharfedale. For critical duties I tend to go with brands I still trust a little more, like JBL and Yamaha, but having said that, every time I've done BBC radio sessions in the last 15 years the racks have been full of Behringer gear.
I'd had a few odds and sods from them. ESBlonde Frets: Used a fair bit of it in the past, mainly outboard rack stuff. When it works it's fantastic value for money but you should regard it as disposable once outside of the warranty period as repair is usually uneconomical.
I've had a number of units that are now well into thier second decade of use in a portable live PA situation, so when they work they work. When they die just go buy another ot a better brand if it's a critical application. Many older units were cheap copies of well known brands like compressers and DI boxes but with short cuts on some features. With modern electronics like this the units tend to fail early or go on for years so the warranty was important, my experience with the warranty on a couple of occasions I had problems with a failure or dead on arrival unit was instant replacement unit from the retailer, so that was all good.
Danny Frets: As an electronics repair guy I'm not a fan of their designs Behringer sell on price point not quality. Yes they have huge, enormous manufacturing facilities, to the point workers live as well as work in them and no doubt their buying power contributes to their low prices but also they achieve these prices by cutting corners and thus cost. That's not to say you can't have perfectly working bits of Behringer kit This is the area where proper design and extra protection in the area of extra components, isolation slots in the PCB etc makes all the difference.
I've got an HK 1KW bass bin power amp module on my bench to do today. There was a surge on the mains and it took out the MOV Had this been a Behringer 1KW module I would probably be calling time of death. Jalapeno Frets: Many of us have started with Beheringer as that's all we could afford, ditto Phonic.
My observation is that rugged isn't a word the sprigs to mind - flimsy is. Imagine something sharp and witty here David Frets: I've also used a couple of their power amps - work OK but just sound rubbish!! ICBM Frets:
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