RE: Behringer FCB 1010 or Digital Music Ground Control?

["Bill Edmondson" <edmondson5@comcast.net>]

I thought the same - built like a tank. I've had two negative episodes 
after
now very long (brand new unit).

1) the midi in connector, mounted to the motherboard, began 'caving in'
toward the inside of the unit. Now I have to maneuver the midi cable just
right to be able to insert it.

2) at one of the gigs, I press a fcb1010 footswitch to perform a program
change on 2 roland gr-33's. instead of a horn patch, it called up a drum
patch! What a mess! I assume that I had pressed a bank up or something by
accident. It turns out that the fcb1010 had lost it's marbles for the
moment. It was reproducible by selecting a different footswitch and coming
back to the problem selection. After resetting the fcb1010, everything was
back to normal. I can only suspect that the ram content were corrupted for
some reason.

Cheap is as cheap does.

I've been on the lookout for a replacement ever since and I've decided to
enforce a 'no behringer' policy in my studio.

Also, it's a complete bear to program.

Not a big fan.

-----Original Message-----
From: S V G [mailto:vsyevolod@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 12:16 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Behringer FCB 1010 or Digital Music Ground Control?


     Dave,

     Behringer has been slagged a lot on this list as well as others.
Sometimes they really
deserve it, as in their budget line of mixers.  Some people on this list
swear by their higher end
mixers, claiming them to be superior to the higher priced Mackie's.  This 
is
just to say don't
judge a company on only a few of their products.

     The FCB1010 is built like a tank, it should give many many years of
trouble free operation. 
Just make sure that the pedals are calibrated and that you clear out ALL of
the presets that come
with it.  Also be sure to get the latest EPROM's, you can usually call up
the nearest factory
outlet in your country and they'll ship you the latest for free.  That was
my experience anyway. 
The switches are relatively quiet.  Once you get your head around how to
program it, it's easy.  I
was never able or willing to go that far, combined with realizing that it
didn't fit my own
playing style, so I let mine go.

     I've never used the Ground Control Pro so I can't weigh in on that
unit.  If reliability is
what you're after, you should be pretty happy with the FCB1010.

         Stephen



> I have been pretty staunchly anti-behringer for 
> years, I've justified this purchase by saying to myself that at least 
> I'm not passing audio through it. But I am worried about sturdiness, I 
> play about 100 gigs a year and need stuff that is reliable and doesn't 
> break. The good side of the Behringer is that it's almost unbelievably 
> cheap, and seems to be very flexible as far as MIDI programmability.






                
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