Overall Rating:
If you are any sort of respectable musician, refrain form buying this cabinet. You will regret it. For a beginign bass player even i would not suggest it, as it will probalbly be broken by the time you can play decently. Very dissapointing. Behringer has let me down big time. Although ive had no trouble with my 8 input behringer mixer. But for cabs LOOK ELSWHERE.
Price: $325.00 Canadian (new)
Where Obtained: Woodshed Music
A 2X10 w/ 1 inch tweeter cab. Alumminum cone speakers by bugera (ive never heard of this company) and has an adjustable tweeter switch, that goes from hard to soft tones by turning the tweeter on or off.
Sound Quality:
One word to describe this thing's sound quality. Disgusting.
I use a 5 string Godin SD5 bass that is my baby, and i love th sound i get from it, except through this cab.
This cab has been dissapointing in the way that it sounds. The high glassy sound that you get with the aluminum cone speakers is really fake sounding and very unrich. THe low bassy sound is also dissapontingly un rich. Aluminum cone speakers do not cut it. The speaker also hums like mad when you get close to the amp its plugged into. The tweeter "hard attack" setting further aggrivates this problem. At high volumes this cab is even more disgraceful. The cones distort rediculously and the cab hums drastically at high volumes. If you are looking for clean sound then look elsewhere.
Its easy to plug in. Waht else is there to say. If you want to use a footswitch for switching from the high tweeter to low bass sound it has that capability.
Durability:
TOTALLY UNRELIABLE. Heres waht happened with me. 3 months after purchasing this cab brand new, the right driver began to buzz like mad at any volume. Then after a single practice with my not very loud blues band, the right driver completly blew and the cab was rendered useless. I took it back to my dealer and behringer happily replaced it brand new. The next day i had a gig at a biker rally and after the first 45 min set the left driver of this 24hour old cab was taost. I barly had the volume and gain knobs at 3/4. Complete garbage as far as reliability.
I looked at Hartke, Peavey and Ashdown, all of which were at least 100 more expensive and none of them had such a broad frequency response. Especially the hartke transporter and XL 210 cabs which lacked both the high end and Low end response of the Behringer.
I don't think that it would be possible for me to lose it, it's huge! But if it was stolen and the person actually managed to get away with the thing without getting tired and leaving it, then I would buy it again. Although possibly if I'd won the lottery I might go for something a little more pro level. But I doubt it as I have a serious objection to paying huge amounts of money for speakers in a wooden box.
for the price, it's just plain amazing.
Model Year: 2005
Price: $120.00 GBP - (new)
Where Obtained: Guitar Amp and Keyboard
Power: 600 watts
Impedance: 8 ohms
Speaker: 2 x 10 in.
Tweeter: 1 in.
Switchable tweeter (manually and via footswitch): yes
Dimensions (WxHxD): 25 4/5 x 19 7/10 x 14 2/5 in.
Weight: 62 lb 13 oz
Connectors: 1/4 in. and Speakon-type
Rollers: yes
It doesn't have a tweeter volume control but I think they're pretty pointless as those adjustments are best made at the preamp stage. So considering the price I think it has to get a 5
I use this with a custom musicmannyjazzbassy sort of thing. I mostly play fingerstyle funk and slap but I also play pickstyle Punk and Ska when the urge takes me. It suits both very well. I also like to kill the treble and boost the bass on my preamp for the odd bit of Dub Reggae and that is where this amp really surprised me, I was expecting a 210 to be good for slap and funk but not dub. It says it goes down to 40Hz on the spec sheet and, contrary to my expectations, it certainly does. Seriously trouser shaking stuff. Also contrary to my expectations I seems to be able to take the power it claims to be able to. It doesn't even think about distorting long after my amp hits max power and the neighbours at the end of the road have started complaining.
However the tweeter is pretty noisy when the treble is around. But that is a fault that I found with all the other Cabs I tried. It would only be an issue in a recording situation, live it wouldn't be noticeable unless you are really obsessive. I think though that the Hiss probably has more to do with my cheap amp and compressor pedal.
Its a Cab. Sticking a jack into the back of it is hardly rocket science.
It's made out of really thick wood, I'm pretty sure it's high density fibreboard or some such. Like the old Behringer amp I cut the head off (Bwahahaha I'm so evil). Not plywood or birch but very strong nonetheless.
I've not gigged with it yet but unless we get stage invading elephants I think it should be fine.
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