fake tubes for under 40.00

eSGEe said:
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You know, Behringer surprisingly makes some impressive pedals at almost no cost. Lots of the cheaper pedal companies are great like Joyo, Caline and even TC electronic is quite affordable ( and is arguably the best of the ones Ive named), but Behringer has really shocked a lot of people in their clone pedals. Construction isn't as good as the others due to using hard plastic frames vs metal, but for clones and replicates? They are hard to beat.
 
Yargnad said:
Behringer and TC are now owned by the same company and even those share circuits between them. Behringer now makes a lot of the components that other companies use to build amps and pedals, like bucket brigade chips, which wouldn't even exist anymore if not for them. I've read they're going to bring back some other hard to source chips from yesteryear, such as the SID and some TI chips used in old DOD overdrives, etc. They're also considering making all of their pedal offerings into 500 modules for $29 so synth nerds and studios can use them as rack effects.

They make a lot of cool poop I could never afford otherwise. I should also mention I have the rackmount Vamp Bass module. It's more than decent sounding, the SVT model is nice.
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I did NOT know they were the same company actually! Makes total sense though and thats cool.

I know they make the Bugera amps too and some of those are pretty decent
 
Yargnad said:
Music Tribe is a huge conglomerate that includes Behringer, TC Electronic, Klark Teknik, Midas, Tannoy, and Turbosound. They have a giant city called Behringer City in China where there's a technical school, engineering labs, manufacturing and a lot of other stuff. They pay much better than the average Chinese employer and all the education is free. Over 100k people live and work there.
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The issue we have had with music tribe throughout the years is no customer support, no parts support, no communications, and a generally evasive nature overall.
If you buy a Behringer amp / Mackie amp, there's no parts for it when it breaks. Many vendors were sooo fed up they just dropped music tribe completely. No schematics...And so if you want to buy something cheap OK. But you throw it away when it breaks and buy a new one, or buy something else.
It's particularity irritating to deal with compared to other companies like Peavey or Fender that get you anything you need immediately to keep your unit going....
Cheap yes, supportive absolutely not.
I guess you get what you pay for.
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
It's particularity irritating to deal with compared to other companies like Peavey or Fender that get you anything you need immediately to keep your unit going....
Cheap yes, supportive absolutely not.
I guess you get what you pay for.
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50.00 .......used -- its 30+ years old ..........................Ive YET to need a schematic or to replace anything .....................

cheap--- and good --- what a concept
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as an interesting SIDE NOTE -- every bit of gear in the pic -- except the PEAVEY and the HARTKE and the lil sexy tube head have gone..........BYE BYE ..............hhmmm.............

the MESA had massive failures -- and serious issues....... cost a metric ton more than the (to some sHitty lowly solid state peavey) cost just to SHIP IT to mesa to TRY and fix :blink: :rolleyes: .....the wood and CABINET of the bandit disintegrated---- yet the amp lives on -----
PEAVEY is like the Honey Badger of guitar gear .... it doesnt give a F****....... it just keeps going
 
eSGEe said:
50.00 .......used -- its 30+ years old ..........................Ive YET to need a schematic or to replace anything .....................

cheap--- and good --- what a concept
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as an interesting SIDE NOTE -- every bit of gear in the pic -- except the PEAVEY and the HARTKE and the lil sexy tube head have gone..........BYE BYE ..............hhmmm.............

the MESA had massive failures -- and serious issues....... cost a metric ton more than the (to some sHitty lowly solid state peavey) cost just to SHIP IT to mesa to TRY and fix :blink: :rolleyes: .....the wood and CABINET of the bandit disintegrated---- yet the amp lives on -----
PEAVEY is like the Honey Badger of guitar gear .... it doesnt give a F****....... it just keeps going
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In Canada, good luck getting ANY Peavey parts even as a dealer. My dealer has stopped supplying Peavey for this reason. They would get parts once a YEAR. Not a great way to keep business going here. I bought a used Valve King from a dude here that had issues right off. Wasn't tubes or speaker or cables etc. Dude refunded the money. I took it to a few places it is a paperweight now. Even contaced head of Peavey service Roger Crimm but got no response. No point trying to send a cheap PV amp to US for service.
Shame, really. That is partly why I ditched my 6505+ combo to my bro. If it ever dies, it is toast.
 
Really good points in the video and rely great tones from @Yargnad too.

I love my Ivanberg Modded ORI50 and I'm not about to give it up. I love my silly-ass pedalboard that still features pedals I bought in the 1980's from Steve Morris at The Music Source in Visalia, California.

Now, in the studio, it's pretty much Avid Eleven Mk II, Blue Cat Destructor or Steinberg VST Amp Rack.

Sometimes, at smaller venues, (like wineries or breweries) I will use only my Blackstar ID-Core 100watt or my 1999 Marshall MG50 Solid State, and both sound GREAT as a clean amp, but neither has the punch or dynamics of my Origin 50.

There just is no comparison for the tone and the MASSIVE resonance and clean headroom of the Ivanberg Modded ORI50.
 
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Yargnad said:
Music Tribe is a huge conglomerate that includes Behringer, TC Electronic, Klark Teknik, Midas, Tannoy, and Turbosound. They have a giant city called Behringer City in China where there's a technical school, engineering labs, manufacturing and a lot of other stuff. They pay much better than the average Chinese employer and all the education is free. Over 100k people live and work there.
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WOW, HOW did you know about this?
 
Ok,

In support of Solid State amps...

Here's a recording from a couple of days ago. This is a demo/rehearsal track for our new singer (Ya, I got a new band together) who still needs to track his vocals onto it, but I went ahead and sang lead so I could create the backing vocals.

This entire song was recorded on my Blackstar ID-Core 100watt Direct-Out into Audacity.

Please excuse the distorted/static around the 2 minute mark (and in other sections) as it only appears on the version uploaded to SoundCloud. Apparently, I didn't leave the required -6db of headroom required by SoundCloud and it creates clipping when their codec reconfigure the 32 bit WAV file.

The first guitar you hear is the fake Les Paul I got from @eSGEe (I traded him a 2017 Gibson SG for it) played clean on both pickups (middle position) through the Blackstar.

The song is in the key of C, (the rhythm progression is C, Bb, F) but the Les Paul is tuned a full step down to D, so I'm playing D, C, G on the Lester.

These pickups were custom wound for me by Jose at Planet Tone. The bridge is a 43awg red enamel wire, Alnico 5, maple spacer, nickel-silver baseplate humbucker putting out 13.8k.

The neck is a 42awg red enamel wire, Alnico 2, maple spacer, nickel-silver baseplate humbucker wound to 7.6k.

The Les Paul is played clean throughout the entire song continuously in a single take.

The overdriven guitars (also played on the Blackstar) are a combination of the Les Paul (D standard tuning) playing D, C, G strummed chords against YelloStrat playing a palm muted rhythm in standard tuning (A-440) using a C, Bb, F progression.

The single-string melody line that begins at 1:04 is played on both the Les Paul and YelloStrat. The unison bends at 1:30 is also played on both guitars simultaneously.

The first solo at 2:03 is played on YelloStrat in the bridge position (custom made DiMarzio Neanderthal 16.5k AlNico9 44AWG humbucker)

The single string melody lines that appear in the bridge - between 2:47 and 3:03 - are played on both guitars, panned left and right. The Les Paul played totally clean (neck pickup only) and YelloStrat overdriven in position 4, a custom pair of hum canceling single coils.

The second solo at 3:33 is played on the bridge of the Lester.

The final solo at 4:00 is also played on the Lester.

While this is probably average at best, it kinda gives you a glimpse of the versatility that can be had with a simple setup in a home studio.

Easter Eggs - early in the track, you can hear our daughter and her friends shrieking over a movie they were watching on Halloween. They came in not knowing I was recording. Since I'm pulling my lead vocals off anyways when our singer records his vocals, I just left it in there.

Here's the track:

https://soundcloud.com/id%3Drobert-h-herndon%252Fin-color-80-proof-redemption-re-master-11-04-2021%3Btrack_id%3D1154226103
 
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