Behringer Pedal Shootout
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- I've been asked about my opinion on some of the Behringer pedals. So I bought a bunch of them and compared them to the pedals they are clones of. What are your experiences with the Behringer pedals? Good, bad or indifferent, leave a comment.
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Time Codes
0:00 Intro
1:08 Blues Overdrive and BD-2
2:35 Vintage Overdrive and TS808
3:56 Overdrive and OD-3
6:00 Compressor Sustainer and CS-3
7:36 Ultra Chorus and CH-1
9:18 Ultra Flanger and BF-2
12:20 Ultra Tremolo and TR-2
15:10 Digital Reverb and Vintage Delay
The Behringer compressor/sustainer sounds better than Boss to me
Absolutely right my friend I find that behringers red compressor limiter is similar to the ibanez, but the behringer has a fuller low end that I enjoy more than the original, it’s sad to say but totally true from personal experience. Not all clones are built alike, but some are just wicked awesome.
I thought the same about the blues driver I think Behringer might’ve won me over
I appreciate you doing this shoot-out. I’ve got a few of the Behringer pedals but don’t have the Boss ones to compare. Your shoot-out shows me I shopped wisely-thanks! My only objection Is your conclusion of “don’t expect them to last if you use them a lot,” because your shoot-out doesn’t substantiate their durability. I’ve got a plastic Arion tuner pedal Ive used for 30 years or so and it never even occurred to me that “it’s plastic.” So, a truer statement of the Behringer pedals might be “If you don’t abuse them, you can expect good service from them for who-knows how long.”
Many people who have commented on this video have said they have used the behringer pedals for years without any issues.
I think you did a great job comparing the pedals. It should be noted that differences in POTS/Knobs, even between pedals of the same manufacture can create variation. Its hard to do apples to apples at the very same knob settings, but in your case... its probably the only objective way to do it. Nice vid.
Yeah agreed, good comparison. More than just the pot tolerances though, all the caps/resistors etc will have tolerances which affects the output. Would be interesting if you repeated the test and tried to match the sounds of each as close as possible regardless of pot position for the ones which were less similar like the flanger. Granted issues like the LFO's being less smooth won't be similar regardless
The tremolo comparison demonstrates your point exactly.
I love Behringer pedals, are lighter, but very strong pedals I got mines by more then 10 years old and they are perfect.
Well done, you can't beat these cheap pedals, i'm collecting them, they are very good for the price point. some of the pedals from this series have become quite rare !
I've seen some for the same price as a boss pedal.
@@JasonAyalaSpare yep, strange world mate!!
I have the Space-C Chorus which went up a bit, but not to Boss prices. What others have you seen shoot up in price?
@@JasonAyalaSpare Wow, that's ridiculous.
Pedal market in general is pretty ridiculous
Thank you so much for posting!! And all the comments as I was considering picking up a couple of these for Acoustic Guitar and feel comfortable after watching this video and reading all the awesome comments
No worries
Due to the circuitry differences, id love to see a comparison vid where you try to match the sound between the boss pedals and the behringer pedals. No matter what the pedal settings would be.
The tremolo comparison demonstrates your point exactly.
Enjoyed hearing the comparisons, well done. I've got the Behringer UV300 Vibrato on my to buy list, going to do the mod that slows down the LFO/rate too. Cheers!
Perfect timing as my CS400 just came in the mail yesterday ($21) and I haven’t tried it yet. I don’t gig and play solely for my own enjoyment so I tend to buy clones because I can’t justify the cost, nor do I think I need to. I also have the following Behringer pedals: Noise Reducer (pretty good), Graphic Equalizer (really good), and Vintage Delay (pretty good though I rarely use delay). I have other inexpensive clones (Joyo, Caline, DemonFX, Moskey, Muslady, NuX, & Danelectro FAB [my least favorite of the cheap ones]). Only 2 cost me (slightly) more than $25 so I’ve been able to experiment with a wide variety of effects for a total layout of about $200. I appreciate videos like yours that highlight some less expensive gear and especially show side-by-side comparisons. Thanks!
I've had a few cheap clones. Some have died on me. Others I sold.
Nowadays I use a GT1B as my main processor and have a few others for more focused tones.
Black russian muff, dual bass wah and dod fx 25. After owning 100 pedals I've settled on these.
I definitely recommend a boss processor. They're definitely worth it. But when it comes to fuzz get a real big muff.
Excellent presentation through the various playing styles. Good Job !
I've been playing guitar since '96 you are the first person to make a tube screamer sound good to me. And on Duncan pickups!!
Awesome video dude
I recently purchased a Behringer CS 400 compressor and have been been very impressed with its low noise floor and sustaining ability. It was $29 US from Sweetwater. A real deal as it compares rather well with the Boss compressor. Best Wishes - John
Thanks for making this. Answered a lot of questions for me. Cheers from Oklahoma 🇺🇸
I personally love Behringer! The customer service is great if you need it, and I just needed a procedure for my Deepmind 12, and they were extremely helpful! The only boss pedals I have now are gt1000 and rc300 my pedals I’ve gone all experimental, chase bliss, Alexander, and earthquaker. I do have one two Behringer pedals for my travel rig, mostly for keyboards, the multi fx600 and the EQ . They are awesome and predictably counted on! Nice job on the video!
Good, honest comparison and demo. Much appreciation.
I love behringer chorus, i think its better than boss. Its insane
Yeah? I have the Tubescreamer clone and the chorus in the shopping cart and itching to pull the trigger. Getting 70 bucks for my BD-2 so technically it would be free :)
Joyo chorus (20€ on Thomann) is also awesome
Great job! So simple and understandable...Thanks dude!
I was thinking that!
Thanks to this video im thinking seriously to buy the Od400, love that rhytm overdrive sound, for some garage/punk/alternative/vintage hard rock vibes....
I liked how you compared the Boss pedals with the Behringer pedals..now I know what pedals to buy.
"Touring durability" for pedals is a moot point for ones that are set-and-forget like EQ, compression, and noise reduction - I have those at the top left of my board where there's no need to tap dance on them. Bazzinga!
First ones to get are : TM300 Tube Amp Modeler
EQ700 equalizer pedal
And a reverb pedal.
I usually hate "review" videos but man, you did this right! You gave us a clean sound as a base then put the two pedals together immediately, playing the same thing. This is how ALL reviewers should do a comparison! Keep it up!
will do
Great video! Behringer rocks!
Shows you can rock out on a budget!
Slight differences in some but overall very similar and worth the price
I used to rock a the TubeScreamer clone in front of an EVH head and it was so crispy and glassy!
Definitely gonna try to build an all behringer board!
Very Cool Demo/Review/Comparison. I have built a Behringer Pedal Board with Bargain Second Hand Behringer Pedals. (CS400,PB100,SE200,OD100,FX100,VD400) They are my everyday use Pedals at Home. You have convinced me to add The Vintage Delay. The Spectrum Enhancer (SE200) Is interesting as it is a Boss SP1 clone one of Boss's Late 1970's first compact Pedals which is rarely seen these days. Thankyou
Great job in comparison thank you
Very good review! Thank you from Germany
Great video make me decide to buy those pedals, with the Sweetwater’s Black Friday deals bought ten of them. Best bang for your buck
Great video, thank you!
Nice 🎸 guitar playing.
Good comparison video.
But I watched until the end because of your playing talent.
Great comparison. If only the Berhinger had a better build quality (metal case, etc.) they would be more populat.
What many do not know is that the Berhinger coproration is so big now that they develop and produce their own chip sets that they sell to other OEM manufacturers, too.
Only where SW plays a huge role when using the same chip set other OEMs often spend more effort to make their devices that are based on Behringer chip sets sound better.
There are metal Behringer pedals, they are sold as the new budget line of TC Electronic. Behringer acquired TC Electronic, Klark Teknik and some other companies a while ago. In the case of the budget TC line they just house similar of even the same pcb as the regular Behringer version.
I like how you play some nice riffs when checking out the pedals
I proudly rock Behringer along side my cork sniffer pedals...I'm currently loving the super fuzz and the heavy distortion is the best dirt pedal I've bought in a while...oh and the vintage time machine (hard to find now) is the cats pajamas
Cork sniffer pedals 😂 unreal
I couldn't afford a keeley Comp Ibz tubescreamer and a TC chorus so I got the behringer pedals as make do's until I could get the others. Well, I got the TC chorus/flanger but am keeping the overdrive and comp. I really like them.
I have a behringer "ultra flanger", which I really like. I'm not usually a flanger guy, but this one has some features I haven't seen on boss flangers, so basically the only flanger I actually like and use. Unfortunately I think it may be discontinued.
You are a very very pleasant player. Im a beat rusher and im jealous of your calm playing.
I've got the Vintage OD and Ultra Metal and enjoy both of them. People usually give them shit for being made of plastic but if you're that hard on your pedals maybe buying 20 dollar ones is the better option for you anyhow.
I was hoping for the SF300 vs FZ-2 as well
The thing I can't stand is people saying they're not reliable. Have you ever heard of anyone breaking them? The main reason people don't want to play them is they don't want other guitarists judging them at gigs
There's probably some truth to that. It's like playing a Squire live, it's just not as cool.
@@JasonAyalaSpareI have a squier strat and telecaster and I play them live proudly. Great guitars. I also have the behringer vibrato pedal on my board.
It would be nice if you tested it with the gain of both pedals at maximum.
In any case, I thank you for this test. At least on the overdrive pedals the sound is pratically identical. I no longer have to worry that Behringer's pedals sounded much worse.
I have a Behringer OD 300 Overdrive / Distortion, i like it very much! Only thing that's not that great, is the little difference between overdrive and distortion. Just sounds a bit different, but i don't care since the overdrive sound is imho really great!
Great vid... Thanks!
Good playing. Good comparisons.
Thanks
They are really durable. The plastic is no problem.
Bit fiddly to change the battery but otherwise they are very practical. One day the chorus pedal will get cloned by a boutique maker. It sounds fantastic, especially if you play The Smiths.
Use them in a power isobrick. Why mess with batteries.
Good video, although there were no variations in settings, whicj limits its scope. Me, I already had some great vintage pedals, but as I'm not playing live now, I've been experimenting with the Behringer pedals. I bought the Chorus, Fuzz, and Bass EQ, and they're all great, the EQ less so.) Another pedal I bought for pennies was the Donner Tremolo, which is wonderful, although the Donner compressor got sent back real fast!
nice sounding cort guitar
I love their now-discontinued clone of the Boss PS-5, the Behringer Ultra Shifter. It tracks better than the Boss. Best 30 bucks I ever spent.
That plastic is extremely tough.
I have never actually seen a broken behringer pedal.
Re housing them is totally possible.
Yes they are pretty sturdy for plastic. The only time I have worried about breaking them is if you try to put a battery in them. That whole maneuver is where the plastic seems like it could break, but batteries are optional.. If you treat the pedals even half as well as you would treat your other equipment you should be ok.
looks like this pedals will conquer the market some of them sounded better then the boss pedal which are 5 times more expensive only thing is maybe they are plastic but that doesnt bother me i have 3 currently
thanks very much
Nice video! Some great clones there indeed (and one absolute Barry Crocker *shocker* in the flanger). I have a Behringer Super Fuzz (Boss Hyper Fuzz clone) which is an insane octave fuzz (with an excellent boost option thrown in). But, as you say, Boss pedals are built like tanks while the Behringers are plastic. End of story. Your closing comments were spot-on, couldn't agree more. For those wanting to dip their toe into the water, it's a good place to start, but if you're a gigging musician, good luck with these things over time.
Very nice playing, man!
Missing jewels : the Behringer Ultra Fuzz and the Ultra Vibrato :)
Thanks, I didn't have the equivalent boss pedal to compare them to.
Thanks
I compared the Behringer to boss and it almost sounds the same which is amazing .
I recently got a TO-800 and damn I didn't know that it was a clone of the TS 808 I thought it was based off of the TS9. but yeah hard pass on the Behringer Flanger. think I'll be going with the Boss flanger or the Ibanez flanger if I can.
Pretty amazing video. I play music full-time for a living as a solo looping artist, usually about 200 shows a year, so I don’t need a bunch of these pedals, as I am mainly using acoustic guitar and bass guitar on stage. But I do have a pedal board for my electric stuff, and I may have to add a couple of these Behringer pedals to it!
What 4 pedals should i first buy for my pedalboard from behringer?
i was thinking super fuzz,ultra chorus,digital reverb/vintage delay and a tube screamer but idk
A friend who plays doom can't seem to find a FZ-2 for a normal price. I tipped him to get the SF300 and he's being using that ever since. In fact I gifted it him for a whopping 27 eur including shipping. He plays in a small band and is very very uncareful with his gear. So for me if it survives his abuse they are fine. He literally stomps the pedal a few time per week during songs in rehearsals and during live.
For me the downside of the plastic enclosure is maybe a more realistic concern (I don't care about the material really) in terms of noise blocking. You don't get any shielding with a plastic enclosure since it is not grounded. You'd think EMI would be a problem but no so far they are fine.
And the switch they use internally is pretty small. Just a tiny pcb mount switch. But the way they implemented the rubber cq foam stud that just physically compress to absorb overpressure. Kind of smart for a cheap pedal. If it ever would fail I'd just solder in a new simple footswitch.
I thought the multi fx one would suck but delay is great ping pong ish and the pitch shift sounds good enough for me. The phaser and chorus was ok on it but the rest is bad.The heavy metal, analog delay and octaver are great pedals.
The channel JHS Pedels also did a great video on this and as expected, when Behringer copies an analog pedal it is spot on. It is off when they try to copy a digital pedal sound like the flanger, tremolo, and chorus.
Yeah, that video inspired me to check the behringer pedals out.
behringer is fairly good for the pricerange, but after trying EHX, i sold them one by one. some are to noiseful and there's no true bypass in chain, in any order i tried them.
Some ehx pedals are really poor though like the satisfaction and satisfaction plus
Only thing I would change is not to align the pots, 'cause it's not the same, there's 20% difference even on a same brand. Adjusting it by the ear and than compare.
100% correct, the amount of times I had to explain this because people think I'm favouring one pedal over another 🤨
Waiting for the day Behringer give us a Digitech Drop at one fifth the price. Seriously, over AU$300 just to downtune, it doesn't even let you shift up like the full Whammy DT
My guitar effects pedal board has a mix of pedals from several makers - including Boss, Behringer - and I've never found the plastic cases to be any problem whatsoever, nor had any issues with reliability which might have caused me to lack confidence in them for gigging. And as far as them being 'made in China' is concerned, isn't that where everything which is decent is made these days?
Sometimes I swap pedals in and out of the mix on my pedal board, but there are two pedals which always stay on there, and both of them are Behringer: One is their EQ, which to be fair is nothing special really and could be replaced by an EQ from a different maker, but since it does the job, it stays there, the other however, is one I would not be without, and that is the Behringer US600 Ultra Shifter/Harmonist, which is great. At the time I bought it, I think it was one of Behringer's more expensive pedals in their range, but it was still cheap, these days however, since it is discontinued, used ones go for around about £100 on Ebay. The fact that an old, used Behringer pedal goes for approximately three times what it used to cost new when you could get hold of them tells you all you need to know about why that one stays on my board.
Now in fairness to Boss, there is one of their pedals which stays on my board too, and that's their Tremelo/Pan, because that thing is great.
So the idea of them 'never being able to be cool' is preposterous; cool is not a logo, it's an attitude and it's in your sound when you play and the things you can do with the gear you have, regardless of who makes it. Anyone who would honestly think cool was about a logo on the headstock of their guitar, or on the front of their amp, or on their effects rack (like anyone could see that at a gig anyway), is automatically not cool, because they think like that instead of having the confidence to do their own thing and make their own choices, regardless of what anyone else thinks.
Now, having said all that, I have had one Behringer product which was faulty on arrival because of poor build quiality and so had to be replaced (it was one of their Swing MIDI controller keyboards), so they are not perfect every time, but then again, I've got one of their ARP Odyssey synth clones; that thing is built like a tank and is in fact better than the original ARP Odyssey, because they added a sequencer to it. I've also got one of their Vocal processing FX racks, and that thing is great too, it's pretty old nowadays but still works perfectly.
Thank you for taking the time to give your review!
I honestly like the slightly cheaper sound of the Behringers, they’d be really useful for indie music
Behringer ultra flanger came in like a ring mod
I use the Berhinger Ultra Chorus on my bass for a few songs and people think its a pricier sounding pedal.. cant complain for $30
I have never really cared about the plastic housings because I don't gig. I can def see the issue if I did though
That said I think these pedals sounded great except the outliers the author mentioned
I have behringer OD 300 overdrive/distortion and i have no issue at all
the big ? is are you going to gig or use them into recording studio if recording studio then its uncool to pay more for something you can adjust in the studio any way
It would be interesting to do a comparison of two of the same Boss pedals, perhaps manufactured a year or two apart, it would not surprise me if there are equal differences between them as there was between some of the comparisons you did. They may be plastic cases, byut they are very durable plastic cases. Having dismantled a number of ‘professional’ quality pedals, many that appear to have proper foot metal switches are no more than a sprung loaded metal shaft, pressing on a surface mounted cheap and nasty tactile switch.
I'm starting to compile a video on old boss pedals vs new ones.
IDK that UF100 flanger totally sucked! And when you said, "all kinds of wrong..." You took the words right outta my mouth! 😅
Could be a paperweight? Jk
tq. v.good
I own Behringer FX600, so far I really enjoy this pedal. Behringer maybe not the best, but it has good value that makes it worth to buy.
BOSS is always well made, but these Behringers are great for like 1/4 the price. You can gig with them. Just don't beat the shit out of them like you would a Boss.
Behringer pedals are awesome. Boss always wins in aesthetic and color choices. But Behringers sound great.
I actually thought the overdive from Behringer sounded better..a little more definition in the mids.
The Falnger was horrible indeed..it sounded to me like it couldn't handle a low input at the end of the sweep, maybe it could with a boost before it.
From my experience Behringers tend to be slightly darker possibly due to their buffer, and this can work for or against them depending on the specific effect (for example I think it helps with a lot of their heavy/metal distortions). If it seems the other way, where they have more tone it usually is just due to knob positions not necessarily corresponding to each other, but generally difference in components, even if they have the same spec, can be there as well. One thing to keep in mind about the effects used in the video though - Boss CH-1 Super Chorus had big silent revision from analog to digital, but Behringer UC100 is the analog variant. If I recall it right CH-1 made after october 2001 are digital, that was found out only around 2010-2012 - nobody really heard the difference for a decade :P
Yes, they also made the CE-5 digital at the same time.
What is the song/riff called, that you played with the vintage overdrive/ts? It got stuck in my head and i need to know
I don't know, I just started playing it 🤔
The CS 400 is pretty damn good if you wanna Fripp out a bit.
The overdrives were almost spot on...the modulations were different and not as smooth; I have the cc300 and cd400 (Boss dc2 and dc3 clones, which I have too) and they're great even tho being still a bit different. I also have the vintage delay that I dislike, and the dr600 (clone of the Boss rv3 that I had and sold because the Behringer is actually better). Other Behringer that I tried and really liked are the ph9 (phase 90 but more subtle) and vintage phaser (small stone). Good video BTW.
Thanks, I didn't know they did clones of the RV-3, DC-2 & 3 🤔
@@JasonAyalaSpare maybe because they're discontinued and hard to find... Also, people won't sell them easily or cheap, infact I consider myself lucky to have simply found 'em in Italy.
* I edited my 1st comment because there was an error saying I dislike the cd400 when it is the vintage delay actually.
I'm surprised to say I preferred the sound of the behringer chorus.
Those blues driver knock offs are crazy expensive and I really want to find one
Really? I got this one for $20
Well you can adjust the settings according to your like, so .....all's good.
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India.
Asia.
The best one is the Vibrato by Behringer
Yeah, I bought one and did a video comparing it to my original VB-2
Legacy products,hard to find
You could have used your boss dm2 waza to substitute for the dm3 there not that different at all sound the same have the same delay range
just my two cents as someone working with electronics: it doesn't make much sense setting the pots to the same visual setting to compare two pieces of gear. you could have two boss blues drivers set the same way and they'd sound slightly differently due to tolerances in the manufacture of the components. instead of asking "will it sound the same at the same visual setting" try asking" is it possible with the given dials to make these sound equal?". we've seen a digitech bad monkey can be made to sound like a klon centaur, so that's the value in this, in my opinion at least.
I don't like doing it, but that's the standard when comparing pedals. If you don't set them the same, you get accused of bias. I've tried to explain several times that not all pedals are the same, for example the volume on a blues Breaker needs to be run up at 3:00, while on a
Klon style overdrive the same volume can be achieved at around 9:00.
Has Vintage Delay from Behringer stereo ping pong delay?
No, it has 2 outputs, 1 carries your dry tone, the other has the delay, just like the DD.3
Seems like you could have dialed in that flanger better, the pots on those may be different than the boss. ive seen other videos and they sound good!!
I played around with it, that was the best setting I could come up with.
What’s the difference between Behringer’s UM300, HM300, XD300, and HD300?
IN THEORY the um300 was sold as the most high gain from the metal line. but in reality it doesn't deliver. i can't explain it in words but i tested it against other cheap hi gain pedals (metal zone, digitech DF7, DOD death metal, MXT D+) and it saounds like shit. the XD300 was a clone for the digitech xseries and it's much better accomplished. the other is an alternative to a boss ds2. it's not good for the sound of modern metal. but for vintage metal it's ok.
Is “don’t expect them to last” based on anything but theory?
Nice video, and great job. I have some Behringer pedals and I can sure that they are enough though how to resist a normal use. Unless you jump over your pedals, then they couldn't be the best option. They are good, and I've looking for some models like Super Fuzz and Vintage Delay. Also I've looking for the "Machine" series pedals but they are rare and I've only find the echo machine and Reverb Machine. Those pedals are now collector items.
Yes, I've seen some of those Behringer machine pedals go for around the same prices as the Line 6 units
My friend you are only comparing potentiometers...you can tweek both pedals to sound like each other..that's what knobs are for...
Behringer stems from a huge corporation. I really like the JHS reviews of them
Hej! Intressant test, men har aldrig gillat Behringer-pedaler. Jag använder bara pedaler från Boss o Tc Electronic. Bra kvalité på dom och bra byggda. Ha det gott🎸🎸
Brits are the best. Something about their accent is so polite and humble sounding. They speak well and always come across like good people compared to us brash cocky Americans
He's not British
Lol
New Zealand 🇳🇿?
Australian, or a New Zealander who's been in Australia a while.@@WesleyWattley-xy4fg
I notice a slight crackle in the boss pedals but it sounds like a cable problem and not the pedals, I’ve been around recording since early days of Muscle Shoals Sound and pick up on the slightest interference
I’ve had 2 behringer pedals, both sounded great but stopped working after about 2-3 years
That is why I won't trust them live. Mine are all fine, but I feel as though they're breakable.
@@JasonAyalaSpare yeah I wouldn’t play them live, mine only survived 1 show lol, thanks for the video though! Great comparisons! the boss trem is the next pedal I wanna get lol
What behringer pedal clone boss ns 2
If it's made in Asia (China/Taiwan/Japan/SoKor/Vietnam/Indonesia) the guitar or guitar pedal or any music gear is worth the buy!
Besides, most Made in USA or Europe have Chinese raw materials & wirings inside their product. It's all about marketing & money!
BD-2 has more presence to me. TS is just the same. CS can' t tell any difference. Chorus, you can definitely hear the Behringer had more depth, though on same dial settings. Tremolo, again Behringer had more depth and even rate is faster on the same dial. The tone difference is negligible.