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Post by dunkelfalke on Apr 20, 2006 6:09:26 GMT -5
have seen this one www.behringer.com/IAXE393/index.cfm?lang=ENGa couple of weeks ago. on one hand it sounds quite promising, on the other hand my first guitar was a behringer one, it had the absolutely worst neck i ever played on. and this guitar looks just like it has at least the same neck. |
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Post by sumgai on Apr 20, 2006 23:59:25 GMT -5
dunk, For the price (138 euros), you're lucky it has a neck at all!  Of course, if you like the rest of it, you could always swap the neck for something you like. The total cost would probably still be a worthwhile investment, if you know that you're gonna stick with Behringer's mindset vis-a-vis single-channel non-MIDI USB. sumgai |
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Post by dunkelfalke on Apr 21, 2006 2:02:28 GMT -5
i rather would rip the guts out of this guitar, put them into my other guitar and sell the rest of that behringer cr@p on ebay, but just because i like the idea.
if it is possible i will do just that. because i never again want to play a behringer guitar. the pickups were full of metal sawdust, the body was the cheapest plywood, the hardware was a joke.
there are cheap guitars that are more or less playable. and then there is behringer. i actually have quite a lot of behringer equipment and i am going to get more, it is quite decent. but their guitar suck.
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Post by sumgai on Apr 21, 2006 4:15:42 GMT -5
dunk, Sounds like a plan to me! At this point, you're treating the guitar like it's a packing case for the desired item (the USB functionality), but it's still a good price for what you're after.  sumgai |
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Post by ChrisK on Apr 28, 2006 17:24:09 GMT -5
So, what the heck IS the thing? Is it a real, signal per string (a la' Variax or Roland [or Gib$on, as in what the hooey IS their digital guitar]), or is it a cheap hatchet (an unkind inference about cheap guitars) with an AD and a $3 USB processor that runs amp/effect modeling SW on a PC and feeds the signal back into the git fer headphones? AND, can you actually GET a 25 foot (7.6m) USB coil cord? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D  |
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Post by sumgai on Apr 29, 2006 14:43:56 GMT -5
Chris,
It's Plan B. No individual string-out signal, just a mono-tonic PCM signal sent over USB to a computer. They include some software, but I don't yet know what that might be. Allegedly, you can use whatever software you like, as it needs only to be able to access the USB port, and you're all set. (Or so they say.)
Like you, I'm in the 13-pin world, so I'm not likely to "step down" to give this thing a try-out. But for someone who doesn't have what you and I have, and they do have a computer (well D'uh!), then this might be a good way to get into the digital world, even if it's in a somewhat limited way.
Pull the guts, leave it in as good a shape as possible, and eBay it back out, sans guts. Cheap entry fee for all the possible fun, I say. ;D
sumgai
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Post by JohnH on Apr 29, 2006 16:31:16 GMT -5
If it is only a single digital signal, then I cant see the point of it. You may as well use any other guitar and plug into a modeller to digitise and process the signal, and Behringer have lots of products that do just that.
My son has the basic Behringer starter pack, with the 15W 'analogue modeling' amp. The amp is in fact, really good for its purpose with lots of fun sounds, and would be fine for practice by anyone. The guitar is most definately 'entry' quality however. The worst part of the pack was the instrument cable, which was 'washing line' quality, or 'tying the dog up' quality.
John
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