@General Lighting 562833 wrote:

Although Behringer gets a bad name and I wouldn’t use much of their earlier kit it for a mobile installation a lot of the bad stuff is from a time when the whole world was swamped with particularly bad electrolytic capacitors due to a Taiwanese “entrepreneur” stealing a fomula for the electrolyte from his former Japanese employers; these elcos got into everything made from around 1999 to 2012. Some US computer companies have had to pay out billions in lawsuits because of them.

That’s interesting to know.

People can poo-poo these mixers, but they do find their way around; I was using one a few weeks ago on the front end of an interpretation system that was relaying audio to George Osbourne, the Chinese Premier, several hundred delegates and the BBC for live broadcast. The job only called for a mixer with a single mono input, and the production company clearly had no issue with using the Behringer. It worked fine (although not the most satisfying job I’ve ever done! :wink:).

Behringer kit is becoming much more accepted than it was a few years ago when they were just producing bad rip-offs of other companies’ designs. And some of the newer stuff is excellent – it seems like every hire company in the country now owns an X32 – been tempted to buy one myself, but can’t really justify owning a desk at the moment.