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This is a follow up to the "Headphone Mixer Amp" thread of a couple of weeks ago. In that thread, I brought up the usual issue about the spottiness of Behringer quality.
I mentioned our two Behringer Powerplay PRO-XL headphone amps and how we've had nothing but problems with them.
Well, we took em down for our gig last weekend. We did some serious woodshedding beforehand which gave the Sound Babe a chance to play around with monitor mixes and setup. These amps have been sitting unused in a church for the better part of a year now.
One channel is constantly red lined. Every other channel is spotty. She would tap it or jiggle it and yeah, she'd get a connection. But turn the entire thing off, then power it up again, and the same channel may or may not work. Meanwhile, a channel that worked before is now twitchy.
Both boxes, *every* channel, same result: craptacular reliability. It was so bad, we ditched em and went with two seperate monitor mixes (one for the singers, one for me and the lead guitarist) coming out of the board. That's the most we can do without headphone/monitor amps.
It seems that just sitting around actually made these things worse than we remember. Either that or our memories of their piss poor performance in the past has faded with age and booze.
Now, our Behringer EURODESK SL2442FX-PRO mixing board worked fine. Keep in mind we've had it in the shop once (two years ago) but since then, no problems. Of course we treat it like it's a Ming vase.
Anyway, if you're looking for something like this, take Super Puss's recommendation and get the ART 406 6 Channel Headphone Amplifier. Okay, it doesn't have any of the Behringer's settings (which are nice and provide a slick "more me" feature). But, it's only $20 more than the Behringer and you at least have an expectation of it working.
www.myspace.com/rubberuniverse
I mentioned our two Behringer Powerplay PRO-XL headphone amps and how we've had nothing but problems with them.
Well, we took em down for our gig last weekend. We did some serious woodshedding beforehand which gave the Sound Babe a chance to play around with monitor mixes and setup. These amps have been sitting unused in a church for the better part of a year now.
One channel is constantly red lined. Every other channel is spotty. She would tap it or jiggle it and yeah, she'd get a connection. But turn the entire thing off, then power it up again, and the same channel may or may not work. Meanwhile, a channel that worked before is now twitchy.
Both boxes, *every* channel, same result: craptacular reliability. It was so bad, we ditched em and went with two seperate monitor mixes (one for the singers, one for me and the lead guitarist) coming out of the board. That's the most we can do without headphone/monitor amps.
It seems that just sitting around actually made these things worse than we remember. Either that or our memories of their piss poor performance in the past has faded with age and booze.
Now, our Behringer EURODESK SL2442FX-PRO mixing board worked fine. Keep in mind we've had it in the shop once (two years ago) but since then, no problems. Of course we treat it like it's a Ming vase.
Anyway, if you're looking for something like this, take Super Puss's recommendation and get the ART 406 6 Channel Headphone Amplifier. Okay, it doesn't have any of the Behringer's settings (which are nice and provide a slick "more me" feature). But, it's only $20 more than the Behringer and you at least have an expectation of it working.
www.myspace.com/rubberuniverse
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