Behringer - cheap and nasty???

[12stringbassist]

I wouldn't be without my BDI21. A little bit of drive and the tone boost are fabulous.

[Woodinblack]

10 hours ago, vbance said:

I use this daily and have had no problems... if I remember it was about £120 and I feel its paid for itself many times over in the last 8 months.

 

I use the two input one of those to take the input from my chapman stick as it also produces phantom power - the stick has a weird / clever 'active if there is phantom power, passive if there isn't' thing.

[Huge Hands]

i used to do pro sound in multiple venues in the late 90s/early noughties.  We used a lot of Behringer outboard gear, such as quad gates and quad compressors.  The running joke back then was everything seemed to cost £99, no matter the model!

 

A lot of visiting engineers sniffed at the name, but they worked for our needs.  We didn't need to hear noiseless perfection in a venue with 1500 drunk punters in it.  We would get the occasional failure just out of warranty, but at £99 we were happy to chuck them in the bin and buy another one - which would have been a bigger issue if we had been using top of the range gear.

 

20 years on I now own a BD121 and a UMC-22 interface and am very happy with them, thank you very much.

[prowla]

The older pedals themselves are plastic copies of Boss, but the internals of both are cheap components.

I've got a Behringer Model D and an El Toro; they are both very good.

I go with the cheap but not nasty opinion.

[lemmywinks]

Behringer kit has a habit of creeping into everybody's setup, the sign of a worthwhile brand IMO.

 

Using an XR18, Xenyx 302USB, P2 and BD121 at the moment, all bought because they do the job I need them to.

[Franticsmurf]

My tuner of choice is Behringer, I use a UMC1820 to record with and since the band I'm in is using an X32 mixer, I now have the P16m as my IEM controller. A P2 acts as my IEM link for use with other bands and, of course, a BD121 is a cheap and compact back-up should the need arise. I started out using Behringer pedals to try out effects I wasn't sure about (usually guitars effects for bass) so I now have a collection of them. I did put together a Behringer pedalboard for fun and a couple made it to the main board for a gig in which I swapped between bass and guitar.