Thursday, November 6, 2008

those behringer copies

Cons:
-The buffered bypass has a noticeable high cut. It’s not a huge deal but then again it’s the first time I’ve actually noticed a buffer bypass on my tone. You’d think they would put an excitor in their lineup because you might need one using a couple of behringer stomps.
-The knobs feel bad. It will move around and remind you that you only paid $13 as you turn the knobs for a setting. It doesn’t affect the pedal’s sound but I would prefer a regular potentiometer and knob.
-No resale value. If you don't like it anymore get into circuit bending.
Pros:
the price. And it completely outweighs all the cons. Because of some legal issues, they couldn’t give the pedals the same names as the original products so I’ve done my best to clarify what each behringer pedal is supposed to be using the listings of http://behringer.com/ and http://bossarea.com/ and other sites with my own judgement

ULTRA OCTAVER UO300 & ULTRA OCTAVER UO100 – Boss OC-2 Octave w/ added range control.
ULTRA ACOUSTIC MODELER AM400 – Boss AC-3 Acoustic Simulator

BASS OVERDRIVE BOD400 & BASS OVERDRIVE BOD100 - Boss ODB-3 Bass OverDrive

BASS SYNTHESIZER BSY600- Boss SYB-3/5? Bass Synthesizer

CHORUS SPACE-D CD400- Boss DC-3 Digital Dimension

DIGITAL REVERB/DELAY DR400- Boss RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay

DIGITAL REVERB DR600- Boss RV-5 Digital Reverb

DYNAMIC WAH DW400- Boss AW-3 Dynamic Wah

ECHO MACHINE EM600- Line 6 echo park?

DIGITAL DELAY DD600-DD-5 Digital Delay (doesn’t seem to be an exact copy)

FLANGER MACHINE FL600- line 6 Liquaflange

FILTER MACHINE FM600- line 6 otto filter

ROTARY MACHINE RM600 line 6 roto-machine

REVERB MACHINE RV600 - line 6 verbzilla

ULTRA METAL UM300 & ULTRA METAL UM100MT-2 Metal Zone

SUPER FLANGER SF400- Boss BF-3 Flanger

SUPER OCTAVER SO400- Boss OC-3 Super Octave

SUPER PHASE SHIFTER SP400- Boss PH-3 Phase Shifter

ULTRA SHIFTER/HARMONIST US600- Boss PS-5 Super Shifter(...wow)

ULTRA CHORUS UC200 & ULTRA CHORUS UC100 - Boss CH-1 SUPER Chorus

ULTRA VIBRATO UV300- Boss VB-2 Vibrato

ULTRA WAH UW300- Boss AW-2 Auto Wah

ULTRA FUZZ UZ400- Boss FZ-3 Fuzz

VINTAGE BASS VB1- EHX Bass Balls envelope filter


DISTORTION-X XD300- Boss XT-2 Xtortion

SLOW MOTION SM200- Boss SG-1 Slow Gear

ULTRA TREMOLO/PAN TP300 PN-2 Tremolo/Pan

SPECTRUM ENHANCER SE200SP-1 Spectrum, is not an enhancer(excitor) effect

SUPER FUZZ SF300FZ-2 HYPER Fuzz

PHASER PH9 mxr phase 90 (w switch for r28 mod?)

POWER OVERDRIVE PO300 PW-2 Power Driver(the one boss pedal to have dumb names for knobs)

DIGITAL MULTI-FX FX600 & DIGITAL MULTI-FX FX100-their own original idea. sounds crazy and very digital, the chorus is wild, id never use this but its cheap and weird.

HEAVY DISTORTION HD300- Boss MD-2 Mega Distortion

HI BAND FLANGER HF300- Boss HF-2 HiBand Flanger

SUPER METAL SM400 & HEAVY METAL HM300 these have to be boss hm-2 and hm-3 heavy metal pedals. I’m not sure which because they have similar controls. Id know if I could hear them both because HM-2 is a good sounding fuzz pedal and the HM-3 is like a mid scooped huge bass scratchy highend tone.

INTELLIGATE IG9- MXR smart gate

DIGITAL DELAY DD400 and DIGITAL DELAY DD100 -seems to be their update of a Boss DD3 digital delay adding more delay time)

ULTRA FEEDBACK/DISTORTION FD300- Boss DF-2 SUPER Feedbacker & Distortion

COMPRESSOR/LIMITER CL9. ? If it is supposed to be boss it is a boss cs-2, but the “9” makes me think it is supposed to be the ibanez 9series compressor

CHORUS ORCHESTRA CO600- Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble

DYNAMICS COMPRESSOR DC9 MXR dynacomp

ULTRA BASS FLANGER BUF300- Boss BF-2B Bass Flanger

CHORUS SPACE-C CC300- Boss DC-2 Dimension C

WARP DISTORTION WD300 Hughes and Kettner Warp Factor

VINTAGE DELAY VD400 WTF, is this supposed to be a boss analog delay? In high school I would've done anything for a dm-2/3 clone... kids have it so good these days.

VINTAGE TIME MACHINE VM1 EHX deluxe memory man

VINTAGE PHASER VP1 EHX small stone phasor

VINTAGE TUBE OVERDRIVE TO800 TUBE OVERDRIVE TO100- ibanez tubescreamer

BASS CHORUS BCH100- Boss CEB-3 Bass Chorus

BASS GRAPHIC EQUALIZER BEQ700 GEB-7 Bass Equalizer and NOT the GE-7B Bass Equalizer

BASS LIMITER ENHANCER BLE100 LMB-3 Bass Limiter Enhancer

BLUES OVERDRIVE BO100- Boss BD-2 Blues Driver

INSTRUMENT/AMP SELECTOR AB100 seems to be an original design. If you ask me, a cop out from the boss LS-2 line selector.

ACOUSTIC MODELER AM100- Boss AC-2 Acoustic Simulator

COMPRESSOR/SUSTAINER CS100- Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer

DISTORTION MODELER DM100, it has modes for boss ds-1, mxr distortion plus, and proco rat, but I’ve heard it sounds like not really any of those.

DIGITAL REVERB DR100RV-5 Digital Reverb

GRAPHIC EQUALIZER EQ700 GE-7 Equalizer

NOISE REDUCER NR100 NS-2 Noise Suppressor

OVERDRIVE/DISTORTION OD100 OS-2 OverDrive/Distortion

HELLBABE HB01- dunlop crybaby from hell

VINTAGE DISTORTION VD1 EHX big muff pi

ULTRA DISTORTION UD100- Boss DS-2 TURBO Distortion

ULTRA FLANGER UF100- Boss BF-2 w/ some extra switch

ULTRA PHASE SHIFTER UP100- BOSS PH-2 SUPER Phaser w/level control

ULTRA TREMOLO UT100- Boss TR-2 Tremolo

all those pedals should sound comparable to the original products, save for different parts different bypass buffers, (and maybe different ADA converters for the digital pedals). So far, all the ones I've tried are close enough to the real thing.

and then I'm in the dark about what these pedals supposed to be, but they're also in the behringer line:

PREAMP/BOOSTER PB100??

VINTAGE TUBE OVERDRIVE VT911 realtube bluetube?

VINTAGE TUBE MONSTER VT999 ehx hot tubes? looks like an amazing pedal, the best one in the line. it even has a thick metal casing and real potentiometers, not to mention the actual tube distortion.

V-TONE GUITAR GDI21

V-TONE BASS BDI21

V-TONE ACOUSTIC ADI21

OVERDRIVE OD400?? could be a lot of things...

TUBE AMP MODELER TM300??

6 comments:

  1. DX9 does not sound like the dyna comp. Not a good comp pedal at all. The other 2 are nuch better.

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  2. Thanks for the list!

    Here's one more:

    V-TONE BASS BDI21 = Tech 21 Sansamp Bass Driver

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  3. GDI21 is a clone of the Tech 21 Sams Amp GT2. Don't know how good it is but the #21 and the knobs are a giveaway.

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  4. Thanks so much for this!!! A nice, comprehensive list. I have one more possibility here...

    Preamp/Booster PB100 might be the MXR Micro Amp.

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  5. A great list. These pedals are certainly worth it for rare BOSS clones. To date I`ve had the TO800 Tube screamer (5 x less than my TS-808 - perhaps 80% close), SM200 Slow Gear, and the EM600 Echo machine is amazing for the money. Today its the PB100 and like everyone I`m curious as to what is a clone off...perhaps this?

    http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/nobels/pre1

    Same controls etc.

    fuzzbuzzfuzz

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  6. Ditto for the A/B box - clearly another Nobels clone :)

    http://www.nobels.com/cgi-bin/products/show.pl?e_ab-1

    fuzzbuzzfuzz

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