Re: guide to programming the fcb1010 for echoplex?

[William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com>]

Ok here is my programming guide for the FCB1010.
  1 unwrap your Behringer pedal
2  get a good hot fire going
3 find a big  metal pot of sufficient size to fit the behringer in
4 drop behringer FCB1010 in to metal pot, place on raging fire and  
begin to stir, being sure to wear a good filter mask to avoid any  
toxic outgassing
5 cheerfully begin to stir the pot until the FCB1010 is melted down to  
its essential elements
6 bite the bullet and purchase a good quality midi foot controller  
like the Gordius Little giant, Voodoo laps ground control or liquid  
foot, and rejoice in the knowledge that if you ever experience a break  
down you can and will be able to obtain parts to fix it.

  over the period of 6 -7 years I went through threee behringer  
FCB1010's before I finally realized that my controller was of equal  
importance to any other piece of gear in my chain so I made the switch  
to the little giant about three years ago and other than having an  
issue with the LCD beginning to fail (Xavier told me his initial batch  
of LCDs had some dimming issues,I'm getting it fixed as soon as there  
is a lull in my work schedule.), it has performed flawlessly.  The  
last time I tried to reach Behringer about replacing parts they where  
kind enough to send me a list of all of the parts, but do not carry  
any replacement parts. Fat lot of good that did me. Thanks Behringer,.  
What this means is the FCB1010 is no different than any other  
disposable technology these days, like a cell phone, if it breaks you  
have to buy a new one.  With all of the attention paid to recycling  
and reusing, the behringer stuff is throw away.  I wont buy another  
behringer product because of this, and the fact they are the reverse  
engineering Kings, regularly plundering and pillaging other peoples  
designs.
  Bill