Bad Gear - The 100 € Behringer Challenge 

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Why spend tons of money on new gear to get that old muddy Boards of Canada sound when you can just use old muddy sounding gear for 100.00.

I love how you let others pronounce "Behringer" for you haha all the different ways people say it made it priceless. Good humor!

Turns out, as of yesterday, you're allowed to use a Keystep in a Behringer-only jam!

Some older Berhringer gear that failed on me was in continuous use. It would often be the powersupply that would go. In fairness something that was turned on for 5 years straight breaking down is pretty understandable.

I love the bilingual pronunciation clips, “Zhongshan” was gold.

I particularly enjoyed the pronunciation debate clips - “beh-ring- gher” vs “bear-inj-err”

If it weren't for behringer, we wouldn't have studios and musical events in Brazil... Note: I didn't say that we have good studios or that the brand's equipment is cheap here.

Dude, these meme videos are priceless. + i really need the Airbase at some point in my life.

I'm starting to get your idea about "bad gear". Subbed.

This is undoubtedly my favorite subscription in the history of my YouTubing experience. You are the yin to my Divkid yang. Thanks for saving me cold hard unemployment cash.

Hilarious video, one of your best I dare say, and I did NOT expect the intro to be what it was. Excellent! I think it's pretty interesting what can happen when limitations force one to become extra creative. I tend to have better results with synths that aren't overly complicated for that reason. That, and I'm extremely indecisive so lots of options will result in endless hours of me noodling around and never actually recording anything.

There are some real gems among the 90's Behri stuff, believe it or not :) The Composer compressor is actually not bad at all and the Ultrafex exciter is actually an awesome piece of gear if you're not too heavy handed. I have the Tube version and it sits happily next to a few pieces of hi-end gear. Their Bass V-amp pro served me very well, too.

This was a great one... everyone has some behringer stuff somewhere on their setup..

I'm here because this video was mentioned in the latest Bad Gear episode.....this grand glimpse into the distant past...

Top drawer video action, man. Entertaining, and educational. Nothing warms my heart faster than budget gear deployed with style and imagination. Hats off!

wow this video is like a time capsule of the past

Dammmn I love your channel mate. Tons of support from Colombia.

The icy reverb is amazingly good !

Dude your editing skills 💯

you should do more of these challenges!

I enjoyed this ((Behringer)) video covering early ((Behringer)) gear. Reminded me of the old ((Behringer)) mixer and compressor I started out with and used for about 6 years. My production and mixing skills at the time were so appalling that I have no idea if the desk sounded good or bad.

Wow, your editing has gotten MUCH MUCH better lmfao.

Awesome video, I really enjoyed this one! Also, that weightlifter at 4:07 really cracked me up for some reason.

I did a last minute, “stand in,” mixing gig for a friend’s band. When i showed the bass player brought me a.... very old behringer mixer. 🙂 What can i say, it got the job done.🤷‍♂️

I've been blessed by discovering your channel today

I was expecting a multi-track recording of a TD-3 through the Virtualizer. Instead - sequencing by Arturia and the Rocket as a soundsource. That's cheating! :)

Ive been watching audiopilz for months now and this is the oldest and weirdly one of the funniest videos ive seen

Pure hilarity and truth here man. Great vids. I'm not the biggest Behringer fan ever but they do have a place and the value cannot be beat. Peace

Behringer the Robinhood of the Musicans!

That's nearly the way I've done my very first demos about 20 years ago. It worked well so far.

Who else wants this episode again? How about a $1000 Roland challenge?

"Pre-X32 Behringer mixers are medieval torture devices" I mean, what would you expect from a cheap Mackie clone? Mackie mixers are decent but basic, and already quite affordable. To cut costs on a clone of one of those you're basically forced to sacrifice quality.

New Behringer gear ; whole other story Crave , Neutron , Model D , most of the effect pedals from the last 5+ years , all really decent and still crazy affordable

Hilarious. And so true. How to record any single takes with a single Model D without hearing knob crackles. Let alone 4 chained in a row is one of the greatest mysteries in modern times.

You are great man! Very good ideas and put together! Thanks!

Wow! I've didn't thought that Uli is that old! Now I'm starting to understand some of the design choices in their synths... If I get the process right.

My first guitar was a Behringer strat clone. I felt bad for the person I sold it to when I got another one.

The flat sounds is why my studio went from Mackie to Behringer back in the day. The last thing I want is the type of coloration added by Mackie boards or Focusrite Scarlett preamps today.

I have a few items from them and considering the cost I am quite satisfied - with one exception: The audio interface. I bought one that looked like yours at 2:45 except that it was red. It was very noisy. Not just hiss but there was also a sound in the background that sort of resembled an old floppy drive. I never used it after the first disappointment.

discovered your channel today and i really like your videos and the humor

I just realized... I recently purchased a medieval torture device *cough* Behringer compact mixer for my church guitar/synth setup :D. It's actually a pretty darned solid little bit of kit, esp. compared to a lot of the other "low end" "inexpensive" baby mixers out there.

Damn that jam w/the rocket was wicked!!! Is there an extended version?

This video is a fucking masterpiece

Top production. Gets the point across.

The first gear I ever bought was the pair of Behringer studio monitors B3030A Truth. It was 9 years ago and I am using them up to today. The quality is surprisingly good

Preiset das Audioschwammerl!

I have an 802 mixer exactly like the one you bought - and I love it! Had it for years and it's never been a hassle. (Bought it at a pawn shop, not new.)

Putting a Effects unit in a nerf gun box. Now what’s what I call DIY.

Behringer Composer Pro and Virtualizer are classics! The former is probably the best noise gate of that era (if ever). The Virtualizer, irritating to configure, but the DSP is solid! The gates on the Virtualizer! Probably the most underrated and understated DSP of the old hardware gear.

Behringer. The Rough Country of Audio Gear.

That Jam was dope, ("Uli Behringer just cloned your mom", lol that killed me). I have some Behringer gear, specially guitar gear (amps, pedals), And I'm ok with them. The quality has improved in recent years but even yet, there are some old gear that has become "collectible" for some reason, like some guitar pedals that now are very hard to find. And now that they are focused on synths they are getting good reception. I've noticed that the most of people that give bad critics to Behringer usually focused his hate in the fact of some of their gear are made of plastic or any cheap material. Not for be "terrible". But I've heard that they had some quality control issues on their first years and there was some probability of get a defective product.

I'd record that on a Tascam 144 with the noise reduction on stun for extra phase incoherency. But hey, I'm still scarred by the experience of using a Seck mixer. You young'uns have a much better class of techno-junk than us oldiewonks. I briefly owned a not-quite-free Bare-ringrrr quad "compressor" thing. Unfortunately, it operated like a microwave (multifunctional, woohoo!) and cooked everything inside it. I love the smell of boiled phenol in the morning. The salvaged front panel knobs hung around for a few years as a grim reminder, until I found a zombie DAB radio at my local flea market for a solitary pound sterling, which they miraculously fitted. It was great while it lasted. (about two weeks). The built-in obsolescence was magically transferable to other junk via basic osmosis. Conclusion. Keep that foamy fire extinguisher handy. Them's proper toasty.

The mocking of Lars Ulrich is kind of a running gag in her i reckon xD

Low-key *in love* with Old Behringer's Ultraverb Pro... a unit so good, they immediately filled it with glue and took it off the market 🔊👂💯➡️🗑️

LOL your memes are the best

Thank you for excellent sense of humor.

The first Behringer device I bought was a BCF2000 midi controller with motorized faders around 2005. This thing is still great. I avoided most other Behringer gear for the next 10 years until they started making some decent mixers and analog guitar pedals (which I completely recommend for those on a budget).

2:16 That's my favorite B E H R I N G E R

Behringer macht seine Arbeit sehr gut in dieser Preisklasse und nach 20 Jahren müssen sich die meisten eh eingestehen, daß nicht mehr so viel Geld in der Brieftasche existiert, als zuvor.

Don't blame the tools!

Heh, your videos are awesome:) I like the way you tell the story and topics that you touch:) almost all my home setup is built around them and its done its job:) With soldering skills its possible to push these products far better but its another story:) And again extremly nice videos:)

Dude, love your content!

I just love this channel. Great video! Somehow I’m kinda attracted to cheap “vintage” gear.. I guess that’s why we’re all here right? Starting the debate here, Do you guys think Behringer has improved its quality in the last years?

this video was made with extra caffeine

I've recently decided to avoid Behringer products not because the gear is bad, but because the way they do business is bad. They sue forum goes who complain about their gear, mock critics of their products and are overall toxic bullies on the playground. Not recommended. Watch some videos by Benn Jordan on the subject if you want to know more.

Word on the street is that Ultrarack mixers used to spontaneously go on fire! But they made some funny noise in the power supply or something as an early warning sign I think, so there was no need to worry. I've got some Behringer in my own basement (bedroom shelf), mainly my first poverty student setup of a Xenyx USB and an Xm8500 which despite the amount of people who praise that mic, I found it made me sound like...a paper bag. Where other cheap mics sound thin and brittle, Behringer remedies this by instead making their mics dull and muddy and just as harsh. The newer UMC interfaces are an absolute steal though, despite the Hi-Z mode unfortunately having a similiar trademark tone to the XM8500 when used with humbuckers. I've seen many online speak badly of the old AKG C1000 saying it's the worst mic they ever used. It doesn't appear to get much love from anyone, except interestingly enough for the engineers at KEXP who always use it for hi-hats. Sounds like a candidate for a future episode.

Subscribed! Great vids man... keep em coming.

I love your videos!! Absolute entertainment!

lol thank you very fun episode, makes me wanna buy one of those virtualizer now XD

those old mixing tables from Bhehrinhgher were working like a charm during 6 months, after you need WD40. Not especially for the model you get, without faders (lol), but the 16 fader ones.

I've had good and bad luck with (bay-Ring-her!) gear over the years. Used an 802 mixer for awhile until I got ahold of my Focusrite Scarlett and realized I could get better audio going direct through that - it sits in my closet now. Also bought an Ultra-G direct box/cabinet emulator for my guitar amp - the cab simulation had more hiss than signal, though as a straight DI box with the sim bypassed it works fine (I understand getting a good Ultra-G is a crapshoot at best). Also had one of their brown stomp compressors for awhile - sucked all the bass and mids out of the signal! (Replaced that with a JangleBox, which is a must if you record electric 12-string and Strats). The ones I do like are the SuperFuzz SF300 stomp (plastic case and all, has two basic settings, Cramps and Fu Manchu). And the UFO202 USB audio interface has gained cult status in the Hackintosh community as a quick and dirty way to get audio working on our builds while we sort out getting the onboard audio to work, and again sounds fine.

I'm ao happy I stumbled apon this channel!!

I'am using a 8x10 Basscabinet from Bäh 'ringer since 15+ years with our semiprofessionell hard Rock coverband. This thing has seen hundrets of stages and citys and rough stagehands......an it still works. Nowadays it is more of a statement for me than a cheap solution to use my trusty old Bechäinger. Thanx for your Video. Oh..btw.:And I love my new crave!

Pretty much any time I had equipment that just stopped working, it was Behringer. Especially those little unserviceable buttons that just stop *buttoning*

Back in the 90 we used to say: behringer ist schon kaputt im katalog Shouldn't there be a cow or sheep sound while turning your mic upside down?? 🤣🤣🤣🔥💛🤘

Lol I have that mixer on my desk right now!

2:05 OMG did Behringer make a clone of the MidiVerb??? 0:51 And it got onto the shelf before it was opened, via the same time portal which brought the MFB 501?

Those Behringer sound bites killed me! 🤣

But seriously The Show About The World's Most Hated Audio Tools is gonna need a lot more Behringer coverage because the hate is strong in 2023! So funny to hear this 2020 video saying people mostly hated Behringer's '90s and '00s stuff. I think there was a lull in the hatred for Behringer when they made the RD-8 / RD-9, but now that they've decided to focus on ripping off everybody's current flagship best-sellers instead of keeping it low-key...

Hey when you said you already heard this tune in the intro, you should really just play 5 seconds of the track again cause I can’t remember what the intro sounded like cause I wasn’t critically listening to it

I started playing my MicroKorg through the Behringer Ultragain tube pre amp after watching this video and I haven't stopped since... because... well, it sounds pretty good. Like a match made in bad gear heaven.... oh and for some extra bad gear spice, I run it through the Line6 M5 stompbox modeller - a much hated guitar pedal that has... midi??

I love the microphone

The only product that quickly died in less than one year of usage was Behringer Firewire I got in 2009 with podcast studio bundle (total around 140 eur). For many years later (around 13), I really exploited C1U and regular one for both music production and online teaching without any failure - each of them paid circa 50 euros. However, their sound is really dry and raw and needs proper processing and further handling in order to sound well.

@4:09 man did that sound warm!

You dont get it... Before Mackie, there were darkness in the category of affordable mixers. Before Behringer there were not darkness in the category of dirt cheap mixers... there were the seventh circle of hell filled with the creations of Belsebub. Like wildly varying frequency response on different channels, horrible noise, little headroom, nasty distortion etc. Then Behringer (probably unethically) copied all the ideas from Mackie, used cheaper components and labour. And suddenly there were dirt cheap mixers where the sound you put in came out relatively unharmed. You could be poor and sound quite good. It was revolutionary at the time.

I had an 8 channel mixer with FX. It's led screen lights broke 1 by 1. I had 1 of the DJ Pioneer wannabe mixers. The crossfader was SO bad sold it quick. The Neutron sounds nice. Wish it could store presets. Don't think I need it. May get it.

So, just to be late to the party, dressed the same as someone else, and make noise (you know, like Behringer gear), I thought I’d say... I love my Crave.

Ah, but they had a digital mixer prior to x32 - it was a rip (scaled down) ofc, of 02R V2, It was called smt like DDX3216 or smt like that.

Can you do the Roland JS-30,with and without the Roland PMA-5?,Love Your Videos Brother!

Still using the old Behringer mixer and audio interface I got in ~2009. They're both pretty bad, but it just hasn't been a big enough issue yet to spend $200+ to fix.

Let me jump in with some extra info... I compulsively bought their first analog modules, the Neutron and Model D. So, after less then 2 years of use, both share the same damn problem - the volume knob that's already cracking at every touch. I wonder if it's a common thing, I would bet that it will be aknowledged by more and more buyers. That being said, they still do sound huge + I wish they would still be building the full old pedal line. The digital delay, the Memory Man clone, of dear - still, the ones they're still releasing are worth every dime. imho. Actually, the digital delay is already selling SH at around 80 bucks. Finders Keepers :)

Got recently an ultrafex 2 multiband for free and it does a quite good job on my setup, I don't have a lot of money but will purchase a beringher sidechain compressor soon

sometimes i use a old midiverb 2 in conjunction with the klark reverb unit in my behringer mixer, and I love that sound. Sounds nothing natural, but it colors the sound in a nice way for lush strings.

maybe make a 100 euro challenge with only analogue gear, would like to see what cheap stuff you could find!

got the tingles bro!!

Twenty years ago Behringer gear was all I could afford, and I loved it jbecause it just worked. Until it didn't.

This idea needs a revisit now that you have slightly more subs

I’ve got one of those preamps and I use it with my 4 track and it sounds pretty decent to me

Behringer 802 mixer + sticker(grey one,not the yellow) and manual and cables €20, Behringer Composer €15, I believe you.