Behringr

[Eboy87]

Now I know I'm giong to catch a lot of flack for saying this but, I was in the market for a new graphic EQ. I was looking at DBX and DOD modles, when I saw a behringer ultragraph pro. After talking with the guy at guitar center (a great place to get gear in my opinion), he pointed out features that it had. First off, the faders light up. This not only looks preatty but you can configure it so that if you get feedback, the frequency that it is coming from lights up. I is definatley a timesaver. I know Beheringer isn't the best stuff, and the salesman agreed, but this EQ is definatley worth it.

[avkid]

wow a lighted eq, now thats classy

[Foxinabox10]

Go to http://www.behringer.com/DSP8024/index.cfm?lang=ENG and look at that Behringer. It has automatic feedback removal in the smallest increments so that it doesn't take away from your sound. It also allows you to save different presets for different settings and events. You can plug in a mic, and it tests your accoustics and adjusts the EQ for that. I've used it once and it is awesome.

[JasonH]

Originally Posted by avkid

wow a lighted eq, now thats classy

ROTFLMAO

[mbenonis]

I wonder what company Behringer ripped off this time...

Seriously, Behringer has a history of taking another company's product, analyzing it, and building a clone with cheap parts to sell for less. You might be interested in this page:

http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~michaelf/behringer.html

Stay far away. Stay far, far way.

[Foxinabox10]

The latest legal trouble of Behringer was in 1998. Most of the products they are selling now have been developed since then. All the companies are competing for the same market. If they stole technology from another company, they would not have, say the smallest increments for feedback prevention.

Stay very close. Stay very, very close.

[Nephilim]

Originally Posted by Foxinabox10

Go to http://www.behringer.com/DSP8024/index.cfm?lang=ENG and look at that Behringer.

The DEQ2496 is a much better unit.

[ETCalltheway]

I've always been impressed with Behringer. I, personally, put them up there almost with Mackie.

[DMXtools]

I have an ancient Peavey Autograph (about ten years old). It combines a DSP-based graphic EQ, real-time analyzer and pink-noise generator in one rack space. You run the pink noise through the PA, move a calibrated mic. around the room, and the DSP uses the RTA to tweak the EQ to the room automatically. I used to put it in series with a more-conventional 31-band graphic - as the room fills with people, the characteristics change. I don't want to pump noise through the PA with the house full, so I used the Autograph to set a baseline, then the standard graphic to tweak by ear to compensate for the size of the crowd. After a couple years, I got good enough tweaking by ear that I pulled the autograph out of my rack to make room for another compressor.

John

John

[mr_sound]

I wouldn't waste your money on behringer's feedback destroyers. I've been using them for a while now on my monitor mixes, and it's just a complete pain. It's ok if you have a graphic as well as the destroyer...that way you can still prevent it from taking too much of the "life" out of your mix. Sure you can save time with them, and if you know your frequencies really well you can use it as a 10 channel parametric eq, but I'd personally rather have a graphic. Plus these things seem to always attack the wrong feedback. For me all my filters end up being used to go after something that was similar to feedback, or even feedback from guitar amps bleeding into the vocals mics.

Now I don't know about behringers fancy new graphic with the auto feedback detection, but I've had the older one...without feedback detection...in my rig for a long time, and it has never failed me. *knock on wood* Lately I've been losing a lot of faith in behringer due to random things failing. I stopped using my behringer 32 channel board since 2 aux sends just completely died on me...plus the tape in and out were wired backwards (so in was really out). The feedback destroyers have had a few connectors fail (the XLR ones...1/4" held up just fine), and the outboard preamps for the digital board are putting a very weird metallic buzzing sound on everything. I never know what's going to fail next with them.

I'm not one to rag on this lower level gear..I know people need to buy what they can afford..I'm one of them.......but behringer has really been dissapointing me. I buy most of their things due to the features...but you gotta really look into the product before you buy it for a specific use. The thing I loved about the digital board was all the onboard processing and effects. But if you actually use it you find out all the aux sends are POST eq, and processing. What good is that for monitors?

But there are some behringer products that work rather well......the graphic that I have being on of them, and their direct boxes work really well. And the lighting board is a really good deal for the price.