Third Post -> review

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date = '2025-01-17T21:34:28-03:00'

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# Sweet review of Behringer _FX2000_

## **Virtualizer & Effects Processor**

- The packaging was good, my precious device arrived in perfect order

- I commenced with reading the quickstart guide, which for me was sufficient

since I've been a Sound Engineer for more than 40 years

- I am using the Effect connected to one of my Yamaha Consoles,

with 1/4" balanced cables on two of the __Aux__ busses

- The interface is logical and easy to understand, positive surprises were

a full compressor with all parameters accessible, and other goodies

you'll just have to buy the effect for...

- The layering c.q daisy chaining of effects internally is also nice.

I have to check the manual to see if you can make your own chain sequence of two effects

> ## __Conclusion of first impression__

- Within hours I knew how to effectively move around the **FX2000**

and I love the effect grouping chosen within the standard effect chain

- There is **a lot of goodies** in the Effect, so it will take hours

to test out all effects and play with the variables

- The device runs quite cool and is very nice to look at,

the colours of the display and dash are well chosen and are perfectly readable in a darkened venue

- The knob buttons and dials all feel sturdy and ready to be used for years to come

- I tested the device with a mic from a channel strip also and it worked as intended

> ## Report on instrument effects usage will follow

# Report I

- I've spend many more hours playing an instrument while testing some instrument effects

- One effect I was thinking about getting the discrete analog version, is the Tube distortion FX

- the drive to buy it has vanished:

1. the FX in this unit sounds just as good

2. this one works immediately and does not need 10 mins (10 x 60 secs) of warming up time. For the uninitiated

a monochrome 32" TV with 100% tubes was only delivering video after 90 - 180 secs of warming time of critical elements in the circuit.

Audio was delayed by a timer serial with a relay, because some CRT tubes pulled so many Amperes, that they dropped a loud **POP CRACK CRACKLE** sound into the audio end amp circuit that could rupture the speaker!

3. In my rackmount effect I have **multiple** (yes _many_) types of vacuum tubes which each have their different overdrive and pleasant {to extremely harsh} distortion characteristics

4. Tubes dont live forever. Some need to be replaced after 10 years, but tubes for distortion often become unpleasant to work with after just a few years.

5. In fact tubes in vacuum tube driven amps, need to be checked in yearly intervals, since those can lose the power they need to deliver when you let the AMP work hard constantly

6. We (usually the greybeards) often praise pure analog circuits & LP's into the heavens, however the reality is that only 1/4" high speed Studio grade Open Reel Tape decks with no more than 4 tracks sounded great, given the fact that engineers {like me} & audio technical folks kept the multipe heads demagnitized, the capstans and rollers fresh and the belts under proper tension.

7. Cassette tape always sounded like cheap FM radio with less than 16kHz range (FM radio pilot signal of stereo is modulated at 16kHz for channel seperation) Even TDK SAX chrome cassette sounded lack-luster, all due to the fact that cassette tape was thin narrow and ran slow.

8. Most rackmount effects that I buy replace the analog counterparts 100%, in transparency usuability and come without the horrible hardware weight. If you ever lifted a **Lesly Rotary Modulation system** you __know__ how horrible that thing is to handle, even though it sounds *magnifique*.

8. my electric bill is kept low, because tube circuits pull power like a drunk addicted to 90% rum!