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I have some experience with MIDI pedals and Behringer. My reply is simply “GOOD LUCK!” I have a Behringer rackmount effects processor DSP2024. I wanted to use it with a midi pedal i have, made by ART, the X-15. The hassle I had trying to get them to talk totally put me off Behringer. I wont buy anything from those losers again! (I did have a previous bad experience with a small Behringer mixer as well.)
When they wouldn’t talk, I contacted both manufacturers. It took B. weeks of repeated questions just to get them to respond correctly. Their program (not people!) couldn’t parse my question properly and kept giving answers to questions I didn’t ask. Then their final reply was that “it works with our (over-priced) pedal” (so buy one). So they posted my problem on their board and claimed it ‘solved’. What freakin nerve!
With ART, on the other hand, I got a response almost immediately. A real person emailed me! Even tho the pedal had not been in production for years, I was treated like a valuable customer! He was even willing to open their archives and pull out the internal timing specs if I needed that info. We COMMUNICATED while I tried to figure the problem out.
At that point I bought a MIDI interface to my Mac and watched what was actually going on in the bus. Turns out that Behringer uses a non-standard bank-select protocol in their interface. This makes them incompatible with most other pedals out there and probably makes their pedals incompatible with other equipment. I can give the tech details but if you are trying to access program channels above the first 128 – forget it. Behringer screwed us all. Now I will be selling off my Behringer processor and NEVER BUYING THEIR GRAP AGAIN ! Any company that thinks the meaning of ‘customer-service’ is only to try to get us to buy more of their trash is black-balled in my book.
Sorry to rain on your hopeful parade but I figure a word of warning is better than seeing others go thru the same BS they gave me.
BS – ha – ya Behringer Systems – the meaning of BSOK, try this!
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I tried photobucket but I am NOT giving them my cell phone number. The second suggested site is closing down so hopefully, this will work.
Stellar Sam
Well, I got a pic and put it up where it (should be) accessible.
http://us.f13.yahoofs.com/bc/44e76a3f_8ba0/bc/My+Documents/Vox.jpg?bf7HuXHBjKPEMaoU
It’s a full sized pic so I dint insert it in the board. You should just have to click on the lnik or copy it to your browser’s address line.
Sam
No tremolo. Oh yeah, this is the “stereo” 12-string. Wierd setup but I guess it was made to fit one special Vox amp.
I have watched what sales I could of these for about a year, now. The only ones I’ve found were in great to excellent condition. This one is certainly not. I did check it out and the original electronics are barely passing electrons. Maybe 1-1/2 pickups worked, none of the wafer switches were clean and almost none of the pots worked properly (and tere are a LOT of them). This is why I want to ‘upgrade’ it. But the plan is to make an entirely new faceboard and keep the old one as intact as possible. All new electronics on the new board, all original on the old board. This way, when I want to restore it to it’s current condition, I just swap plates with everything already in place. And the old one would be vacuum sealed until such time.
It looks like this thing might have taken 5 minutes to setup before each song! And all those controls to bump when you’re playing! I’ll be eliminating the split pickup format and no more “stereo” action, but it will still have 6 pots and 3 wafer switches – more for looks than needs.
Anyway, don’t despair, I won’t be doing anything permanent to it except maybe, stitching up a tear in the rear pad.I keep my critical computers (with my music interfaces) offline and that’s where I would be playing the game. Is there a downloadble version of it? else it’s next-to-useless to me. But what I’ve seen, it looks alright. Even better would be a PocketPC version so I can play during my lunch or on long trips!
