I have heard a ton of conflicting reports about the products this company makes. Some love them, others hate them. I have owned 4 Behringer products. The first three were smallish mixing boards with built in f/x. The boards claimed to be 14 channel boards but in reality they were 10 channel boards with 2 stereo aux inputs. Purchased the first one (approx 10 years ago or so) because you just couldn't beat the price and we needed one in a hurry. After about 5 months one of the channels died. Then a month or so later 2 more went at the same time. Took it back and got a replacement under warranty. The new one lasted about 6 months before channels started to die. This happened just after the original 12 month warranty expired and since we'd already had one free replacement they had no sense of ha-ha about it. As I understand it, most Behringer products now have optional 3 year warranties. Bought another because money was tight. This one lasted 13 months before channels started dying. Used them both at the same time to get enough channels for a while until enough channels died it was useless. Took them both to the electronics recycle depot. Bought a 16 channel Allen & Heath and never looked back. So that's 3. The 4th item is a pair of 18" subs which strangely enough I won in a bet and they have never given a moment's grief even though I've fed them their maximum rated power (450W-continuous/each/8Ω) on many occaisions.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

hit and miss

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Don't leave home without it!

No issues, although the build quality feels very flimsy/plasticky. The high gain models are pretty damn awesome though. Great tool for practicing and extremely portable.

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"Music is what feelings sound like"

The most efficient way to waste your money in a music store.

Definitely recommended (for that sole purpose)!



Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

Definitely hit and miss. I've had a few of their things over the years, some have been average, some have been utter junk (including one delay pedal which cut the signal by about half even when bypassed, and a 12ax7 overdrive pedal which just sat there alternating between a loud humming and superdeathmetal gain), and the occasional thing has been actually really decent.

In particular, their one knob cheapy phaser pedal is surprisingly good, aside from the completely made up claims of true bypass. Considering the price, it's well worth a couple of minutes with a soldering iron to pop a proper footswitch in, and while you're in there you can fix the one thing which bugs me the most about most Behringer pedals - the blue status LED which is about as bright as staring into a nuclear explosion.

I also have a Behringer pedal tuner on my board at the moment - aside from the ability to munch a 9v battery in about five minutes (as I found out when my board PSU died once!), it's a decent little unit, and cheap enough that I don't care if it gets stolen or broken. It sits out of the signal path, so no worries on that front. And yes, it sports a tiny bit of duct tape over that bloody LED.

I've heard more negative reviews of Behringer than good and almost all stores here stopped selling it because of the returns they were getting,in fact the last store in this area that was selling Behriger gear just went under-but I doubt if the 2 were related.

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OK, so far with an admittedly small sampling (9 votes) we have 88% saying the very best you can do with these products is hit & miss and a full half of those say it's worse than hit & miss. I'll let this run for a while and see if the balance changes.

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I'd stay away. If it's all you can afford so be it, but from what I've seen and heard they make very lowend, plastc junk.

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Of those who say it's complete junk, how many own or have owned Behringer products? It's easier to regurgitate what you read on the internet or hearsay than first hand experience.

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G,day, Hit'n'Miss for me.
A pedal I had a a few years back wasn't great.
I now have this USB adaptor which although simple, seems to be of high quality. No problems so far.



Gooodonya ...Mark.

Hence the title of my poll if you'd care to take another look.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Of course I did. It was a heads up to people that voiced their opinion without ever trying a Behringer product. And I have a feeling there's a few here that expressed their dislike because of what a friend of a friend of a friend said.

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"Music is what feelings sound like"

I think it largely depends on what it is.

I've not been impressed at all with their Guitar amps, the ones I've heard, just have no tone at all, the minute you crank them, they just don't sound like anything you want your ears to hear.

I've gone thru two 4 channel headphone amps, one just popped up with a dead channel one day.. the other channels work fine, bought another one that I eventually sold to my son, and that has never had a problem - 99 bucks, what can ya do, - hit or miss for sure. One good feature tho, each channel has treble and bass equing, none of the others in this price range will have that.

I have a pair of their studio monitors, (8" woofer) and they've held up quite well,

Also have an 8 channel board that I picked up used for a song and dance. Of course this don't move around much, sits in my music room and I used it to pipe my keyboard into my sound rig, so not subject to wear and tear lugging around. I will say, I've never been quite able to figure out all the routing options, there's buttons on that thing that I have no idea what they are supposed to do!

I would buy the studio monitors again, I would seek out another brand to replace the board, and I would probably pass on the headphone amp, I've got a presonis that I am using now, rock solid.

The same can easily be said for people who feel the opposite. Let's not turn this thread into something it isn't. It is a discussion of Behringer products, not a discussion of people.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

I've had the hit or miss experience. Throughout my career I've had the pleasure and displeasure to play along side people using Behringer equipment. The first example is of the small PA speakers we used to use years ago. They always sounded fine for what they were, and took some serious abuse over the years. We don't use them anymore, but they still work perfectly fine. The second piece of equipment was a group PA purchase as the first part of an "upgrade". We got one of the Behringer low-end High-power models that saves money by skimping on powered monitor lines and the like. It's a total PoS. No other way to put it. It works, but it's wired funky and has issues that we work around. The last is a 412 cab that our former rhythm guitarist (who I'm now working with again) scooped up on a MF clearance sale. That was 6 years ago. It sounded great then, and still does. Though it is a bit heavy. The only thing it needed was a quick blast of WD-40 on a caster and it was perfect.

So the only thing that has shaped my opinion on Behringer and their products is this. I'd steer clear of complex electronics as their cost cutting measures can really hurt their products there. As far as their speakers go if you're on a budget they should serve you just fine until you can afford or need to upgrade.

Jmo, of course.

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