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I don't think the Line 6 > was designed for this kind of application. It is pretty easy to overload the > Line 6. Hey Rick.. Want to purchase a Line 6 but...should I be concerned? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Walker (loop.pool)" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 4:58 AM Subject: Re: Loopers-Delight-d Digest V01 #389 > Luigi wrote: > > "You could try giving a look at Behringers and Mackies (not to get back >to > an ld discussion, but they are almost 90% the same)." > > > Please forgive me, Luigi, but I have had a very different experience with > comparing these two companies. > > Behringer, of course, reverse engineered the Mackies and were >successfully > sued by Mackie. In a strange twist, Mackie has let them keep selling these > ALMOST perfect copies at 1/3-1/2 the cost of the Mackies and, I suspect, > that they are having to pay Mackie some kind of licensing payment---although > this is mere conjecture on my part. > > Where Behringer scrimped, unfortunately, are on the microphone preamps. The > Mackies are really incredible: very low noise, high gain and very, very > transparent sounding. The Behringers are, by far, the inferior mic preamps. > > When Behringer first put out their > $100, two mic preamp mini mixer I got very excited and bought one for my > pedal board for low tech blitzkreig looping gigs (one trip from the car!!!). > I just recently > gave mine away because the mic preamps were so noisy and coloring of the > sound. They don't even compare to the Mackies even though the boards >look > identical. > > Just a warning.....you frequently get what you pay for. I actually bought > a $100 ART microphone preamp and use that to amplify my voice going into my > pedal board Line 6 which works great even though I don't think the Line >6 > was designed for this kind of application. It is pretty easy to overload the > Line 6. > > My 2 cents. Rick Walker (loop.pool) > > > > > >