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Re: Quality of Behringer Mixers. Was Re: Balancing Volume Levels?
ill second this,except for the FCB1010(which seems to
be pretty reliable) i havent had any good experiences
with Behringer.I think the FCB1010 is probably the
best product they have come up with!
Luis
--- S V G <vsyevolod@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Rainier wrote:
> <<I'm slowly getting tired of people using the
> Behringer brand name like it
> was a mixture of Josef Stalin and French
> carmakers.>>
>
> I am very open to hearing about quality
> Behringer mixers. They have a quite deserved bad
> rap
> when it comes to very low quality in some of their
> products, most notably their low end mixers
> (and FCB1010 manuals). A local pro audio repair
> shop near me does a lot of Behringer warranty
> work, a lot of it comes straight from Behringer
> themselves. The amount of gear that goes straight
> into the dumpster is absolutely overwhelming. We're
> talking pallet load after pallet load. If
> they are getting compared to Joseph Stalin or French
> carmakers (a bit extreme IMHO) perhaps they
> are deserving of it?
>
> I feel that the best thing that we can do as a
> group of people is to steer our friends away
> from low quality and towards high quality.
> Sometimes high quality comes in very inexpensive
> packages, perhaps it's the physical interface
> alone... or the owners manual is very well thought
> out, or something like that. If a manufacturer is
> selling a product that appears to be a good
> deal only to have severe malfunctioning or low S/N
> ratios, I want to hear about it.
>
> The LD list is most useful to me when people
> can objectively discuss various gear, the pros
> and cons of UI's, sampling quality, how the gear
> *works* for us as opposed to against us. I have
> learned so much over the years of being on this
> list. Behringer mixers, and I am talking about
> the low end stuff that they produce, are not worth
> the money they charge unless fidelity is not
> important to you or your application. In my
> experience, Mackie is a better value for the money.
> And I would love to hear contrasting opinions.
> Like, at what point does Behringer start sounding
> good? How much do I have to spend before I get a
> reliable, relatively low noise mixer? Does
> Behringer actually compete with Mackie quality-wise
> at some price point?
>
> One of these days I may get inspired to get a
> better quality mixer than my two Mackies (1604
> VLZ Pro and 3204). Then I'll talk about how much
> more of the music I'm hearing and I can't
> believe how long I stayed with the Mackies. :)
> Until then, Mackie rocks my sonic world.
>
>
> <<And if anybody is interested: Way back, I replaced
> the integrated mixer of
> my Fostex multitrack (which back then was the best
> integrated fourtrack on
> the market, also superior to all portastudio
> products)...>>
>
> This is where your argument gets absurd. Which
> Fostex multitrack? Are you sure it's
> superior to *all* portastudio products at that time?
> Did you really try them all? I appreciated
> your post up to this point. Claiming that you are
> authorized to say that Fostex kicks sonic booty
> on *all* Tascam portastudio products of that time
> will not work without further backing up your
> words. C'mon man, you can do better than this...
>
> In sonic honesty and friendship,
>
> Stephen
>
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