Behringer DSP 2024P Virtualizer Pro, Pro 2496 Reverb Effects

Product: Behringer DSP 2024P Virtualizer Pro
Price Paid: USD 99
Submitted 02/25/2009 at 02:08pm by meep

Ease of Use : 9

I find this unit very easy to use, even without the manual. The menu system is a little limited due to the 4 character display, but if you know what you're looking for it's very straightforward. Any piece of gear with this many features does require the user to have an idea of what they are looking for, however. It is not as simple as a single stompbox...

For a small-mid sized rig the noise is tolerable. A stack of 'em could be a problem. I gig with one in the chain on a wireless horn rig, mostly now as a problem-solver. True efx I'm keeping on the floor. That said, it never gives any problems with ground loop (can't say that about my presonus and ART DIs).

I did use it for a cpl years as the primary efx processor and achieved some rich tones that stomp boxes just don't have the flexibility to achieve. However, the delay in preset switching was a real limitation. Even so, it sounded very good in this app.

Surprisingly robust for the brand. It's in a 4u case that is constantly moved. 2-5 events/month. It's been dropped, it's been outdoors in the HEAT and COLD and has worked ok down to~ 105 volts.

Has locked up on me twice. Both times I suspect it was overdriven (hottest part of the song, we're playing hard, etc...). However, that could mean excessive signal OR poor power voltage onstage. Power cycle fixed.

Excellent tool. Cleaner sound than some of the yamaha EFX I've worked with. Quicker to tune if you know the menu. Great features for the price, very reliable. I'll prolly buy a 2nd soon for use as a parametric EQ.... it's cheaper than a real eq for that cost.

Product: Behringer DSP 2024P Virtualizer Pro
Price Paid: USD 65 USED
Submitted 10/10/2008 at 12:08am by Jacky O'Brien

Ease of Use : 8

If you plug your guitar into this thing, you'll immediately have more options for sound than you've ever dreamed of - and these are not just cheap, crappy sounds, these are all over the place. The issue here is, that depending on what you want this is not a plug-in and go kind of unit - you have to edit the effects to get what you want - and this unit will let you do that - and remember your changes. I use this unit with an FCB1010 foot controller (a challenge to grasp, but doable) and use it all the time for effects. If you're wanting to edit patches, remember that the volume from patch to patch is not always equal, you have to adjust your gain so that you don't have one patch that is too quiet and another that screams. You can do this, but it takes time and patience at first, until you determine what patches you want to refine. The DSP 2024P and sound awesome - it's all up to you and your choices.

Over one hundred settings are available, not just adjustments, but actual different sounds. Plan on spending a week just figuring out what you want the most, then adjust them to the volume and intensity levels that you want. I use this in a rack with a foot controller and use about 20 presets - any more than that and I'd never remember what they were. Now here's a gripe, and I think a pretty valid one - UNLIKE A PEDAL ON A PEDAL BOARD THAT SWITCHES AS SOON AS YOU STOMP IT, THE DSP 2024P HAS A 1 SECOND DELAY, SO IF YOU'RE RAMPING UP TO THE NEXT LEVEL, KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TO PLAN FOR A DELAY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF YOUR NEXT EFFECT. This has been a much discussed failing of this effects unit and the company has not offered an explanation other than "this is what happens" and so what is the question? In my experience, this is an annoying trait of this unit, but considering all of the other great things I get out of it, I can overlook it.
I use this unit with a condenser mic or a guitar line in, switched with an FCB1010, through an ART preamp into a sound board. The only thing I lack in this set up is a volume pedal (which exists on the FCB1010 but will not work with the DSP 20204P. I've heard the volume and expression pedals on the FCB1010 will work with the VAmp effects system, but I've never tried it).

I didn't say this before, but I have two of these units, matched for different traveling rigs. If one of them died I'd immediately buy another. There's just no doing without a unit that has this much operating ability, broad scope, and editing quality for the money. I use my DSP 2024P live all of the time. I have one in my rack and one for my suitcase. Can I depend on it - hell, it's only a circuit board and a few input/outputs.

I've been in touch with Behringer a few times for technical issues and they've always gotten back to me. Just remember; because you're asking a question about their hardware, they assume that you understand it and will answer you with reasonable solutions. If you don't understand the gear, they won't hold your hand while you try to "get it". They expect you to figure it out.

I've been playing a long time as a pro and have lots of equipment. I'm grateful to Behringer for making gear that sounds great, lasts and has the sounds and effects in a price range that encourages me try it out, use it and appreciate their efforts. I have EQ's, Sound Exciters, Effects, Foot controllers and a bunch of other Behringer gear that has lasted for quite a while (including stomp boxes). Considering the money I've spent, I can't complain about anything that Behringer makes, and I appreciate their tenacity in a difficult business that harbors its full share of snobs, detractors, and opinionators.

Product: Behringer DSP 2024P Virtualizer Pro
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 07/29/2008 at 08:57am by Roberto Galli

Ease of Use : 7

Not very simple and quick to use, but if you're looking for something flexible and customizable with a lot of parameters to change, here you have at least 8 different parameters for each effect (the last 2 are always the bass and high equalization). For this reason you will always need with you the list with the names and position of the parameters associated to each effect (even if the first four letters of the parameter name appear on the display when you start moving a knob). The manual is clear, but not so detailed in the description of each effect/parameter, but you'll agree with me that it's not easy to describe a particular sound, so probably it's better to experiment with it. A lot of preset available (100 + 100)

Quite good, I use it only for voice (mainly reverb), and I find its sound too much "digital" and cold if compared to a Lexicon LXP1 (another unit that I own, but that it's only a reverb/delay, not a multieffect). However for the price it costs, it's a good buy. Apart the reverbs, also the quality of the distortions and equalizations seem to me good.

it seems to me solid and reliable, if you transport it with care you won't have problems

I play rock with a band for 10 years about, I suggest it if you want to use it live in little places/concerts. Take into consideartion that it has 2 main defects:

1) you have available only 11 predefined combinations of effects, you can't have more (e.g.: you cannot combine a compressor and a reverb, or a distortion and a delay, but you can combine a delay and a reverb). I suggest to download and read tha manual before buying it if you are interested in a particular combination of 2 effects

2) you can change via midi and a footswitch the effect used during a song, but it will take about 1 second of silence/mute before the new effect take place. This can be a problem if a song requires a quick change of effect

For the price it costs it's a good buy, I suggest it if you want to experiment with different effects and you don't need a specific one or a high quality sound. If you only need a compressor and a reverb, I suggest to buy 2 specific units.

Product: Behringer DSP 2024P Virtualizer Pro
Price Paid: USD 95.
Submitted 11/11/2007 at 01:53pm by cdh

Ease of Use : 8

Nothing's as easy to use a floor full of pedals, so if you keep that in perspective, this one is reasonably easy. Once you master one multi-effect you pretty much know the game with the others, patches, banks, presets, algorithms that kind of stuff.

The manual is pretty good. Behringer gear always gives you a lot to read. Could be better, but there's a lot worse. One guy below suggested laminating the Effects list. Not a bad idea, since you'll be referring to that a lot.

When I first plugged mine in it hummed like a M-F (that doesn't stand for Musician's Friend). I did some checking and the outlet had an open ground. Plugged it into a proper outlet, and hum was gone. I'm a little worried about that; it suggests that there's something shorting out inside the DSP2024.... but I'll fix that later. For now the hum is gone, and unless you use one of the way-out effects, like Video Game, it's as silent as all Behringer products.

Setup: depends, but for the most part,

'74 strat --> yamaha preamp--> DSP2024 --> 3-tube Silvertone amp. The manual for the DSP says to use it with a pre-amp, and you really have to take their word for it. It sucks without it. Not sure why. But once you take care of that, and really juice the input into the DSP it rewards you with heavenly sound.

Effects
Like I said, if you've been around the block, you know that when you buy a multi-effect you'll get about 10 cool effects along with ones that make your guitar sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks (my Boss BR532 actually includes that effect... I have to believe that the engineers were smoking weed when they put that in there). This means that right next to a kick-axe effect like "Soft Tube" on the behringer, there's "Robot." Now, I don't know about you, but I didn't pay a few thou for my vintage strat only so I could hear it sound like a robot. Where does this leave you? I look at it this way: you don't toss your guitar just because you don't use the frets towards the body/pickup. You only use the frets/notes you want. Same goes with multi-effect boxes. Now here's an interesting thing that almost makes me want to eat my words: on the DSP2024, there's a preset called "Synth Heaven." Yeah, I know. That's what I was thinking, but one day I accidentally was playing through that setting (I thought it was one of the more reasonable or useful presets), and I swear, that is one cool tone. It's not a heavy "synth" (whatever that is anyway) sound. It's more like a very subtle Flange. Layer that with a touch of Phaser (though you gotta use another box for that), and you've got really close to SRV, and I'm usually not one who goes coveting the tones of others.

Since this thing has a zillion effects settings (which can be edited to suit your persuasion, and since MANY of them are really, really useful, I'll rank it high on this scale.

I know people like to rip on Behringer. But I've never had any probs with their gear.

I don't gig, so I don't have to worry about the possibility that beer will get spilled on it. More like I'll dump my cereal bowl on it.

I've asked them some questions, they usually get back to you in about 3 days. Average

I just screw around on the guitar, so I would say that the closest that i come to would be bluegrass or jazz (and that's probably pushing it).

I own a couple other multi-effects, and have some home-brew pedals. The behringer beats my Boss, Korg, Art, and (almost) yamaha multis. As far as beating stand-alone pedals, the behringer can beat most of them, especially its 'verbs and delay based effects. It's "Tube Preamp" setting is perhaps the best (and quietest) setting I've encountered on ANY multi-effect. I own a tube and an SS amp. The Tube Preamp setting makes any amp sound Tubish, and makes my little vintage amp sound like my brother's real-deal Fender. Worth the price just for that and a couple other effects.

Anything I wish it had?
Yeah, easy. As others have noted, Behringer needs to get with the 21st century and upgrade the display. It's a pain to have to look up in the manual to see what "U13" stands for, especially when it's something fairly basic like "Room Reverb" Second, Behringer really, really needs to include more documentation on the various effects and presets. Korg, e.g., includes a detailed breakdown of the initial settings for all the effects. That gives you a lot to work with if you want to duplicate (or just figure out) one of the effects. If you try to figure out how they got "Soft Metalizzer" for example, you can't.

What do I love about it?
As simplified as this sounds, Behringer gear just sounds good. Whether the v-amps, or the DSPs, they just sound good. I owned a Virtualizer 1000 (the 1st generation of this one) and it was great. If you're into serious distortion or metal, I would question if this is the DSP for you. But if you're into clean, Eric Johnson style tones, some of the effects are really worth it. Like I said, I tossed a bunch of more pricey gear (like a boss gt-6) because they just didn't sound as good, or make my guitar sound as good.

What do I hate about it?
The front panel. Come on, tell me why they made the writing under the main knobs so tiny and in WHITE??? White on chrome might as well be invisible. Actually, it is.

Product: Behringer DSP 2024P Virtualizer Pro
Price Paid: USD 60.00 USED
Submitted 11/11/2007 at 12:20am by jim bob
Email: crisis_ak<at>hotmail dot com

Ease of Use : 7

if this is your first FX unit, it might difficult to understand the acronyms displayed on the display, other than that its quite straight forward. I give it a 7 beacuse of the long delay while switching patches via the jog wheel, and having to push the edit button to change parameter rows.

the sound quality is, well decent. Its great quality for the price, but dont expect it to come anywhere close to some more expensive units. Its bang for your buck, the reverbs, chorus, flanger, and delays sound OK, the compressor is lacking and the distortions are laughable. I'm giving it a 6 in sound quality, but keep in mind some of the effects sound pretty good while others sound terrible.

it looks pretty sturdy but the knobs are cheap plastic. They will break very easily, everything else seems ok. 6 for the garbage knobs.

This unit is decent. its a one trick pony though, and thats why it gets a 4. this is because you cannot stack ANY effects. you can only use 8 or so pre-combined effects. these are combinations of phasers, flangers, chorus, and reverb. I am a guitar player and i mainly want compression, denoiser, reverb and chorus. There is not way to know this until you get the unit home so dont make the same mistake i did. Now if i could combine the effects that i wanted to, this thing would make me very happy.

Product: Behringer DSP 2024P Virtualizer Pro
Price Paid: Euros 115 USED
Submitted 10/05/2007 at 04:31am by Sa??o Podobnik
Email: spamalot<at>volja dot net

Ease of Use : 8

The combination of endless rotary encoders and a four-character LED display works quite well for editing, though the manual has to be occasionally consulted for more obscure effect parameters and system settings. The effect quality really depends on which one you're using - some work well, some are passable, some are rubbish.

I used the Virtualizer for general project studio duties and it perfored with varying success. I liked the delays best: you get up to 5.4 seconds, which is enough for most applications, you can specify the exact time in milliseconds, something I really miss on the budget bracket units nowadays - there is no tap tempo, on the other hand - and the feedback can be both low- and high-pass filtered. With both stereo delay channels sharing the dry/wet setting, there is also no dual mono delay like there is on the Alesis Midiverb 4 - a rather unfortunate oversight.

The on-board compressor is actually useful (unlike the Ultramizer, which is the multi-band variation), certainly much better than I expected and about on par with the ones found in the later Yamaha SPX's, and it proved a functional stand-in when one of my Composers developed a problem. Since it doesn't feature in Combinations, however, it probably won't get used much by most people, so that's only a minor plus.

The reverbs turned out to be a bit of a sore spot for the Virtualizer. Most of the algorithms aren't even close to simulating actual spaces - well, maybe if they were named "Tin Container" 1 through 12 - and only the Early Reflections algorithm is in true stereo, which I also found slightly disappointing. Still, most reverb types are nicely configurable and as long as you don't use the unit on vocals or complete mixes, you should be fine. I used it mostly on drums and got decent results - get in touch to hear it in action - but I do feel the engineers at Behringer should've spent more time with the reverb algorithms. At a glance, the rest of the effects sounded passable, except for the distortions, which are hopeless, along with most of the other guitar-oriented effects, and the psycho-acoustic effects, where you often can't tell what they're supposed to be doing to the input sound beside ruining it.

The Virtualizer appears to be built quite well and looks like it could hold up on stage but since it locked up on me once for no apparent reason, I'd only ever want to have it in the aux loop - there is no hard-wired bypass when the unit is turned off.

At current prices, the Virtualizer is still an excellent deal: for less than 100??? and with decent A/D and D/A converters, it pays for itself as a delay unit alone. I also appreciated its internal power supply and added XLR inputs and outputs, two things which the Midiverb 4, which used to be Virtualizer's main competitor, doesn't have despite costing twice as much. Still, at the end of the day, I prefer the Alesis unit for some reason. As far as character is concerned, its shimmering, sparkly, animate reverbs give even the V-Verb, Virtualizer's slightly more studio-oriented successor, a run for its money, and its independent parallel effect combinations are a truly brilliant feature. With TC and Lexicon units also slowly coming down in price, there is less and less going for the Virtualizer, particularly in the US, where you can apparently pick up the V-Verb for the exact same price (the steal of the century as far as I'm concerned, and it's only 2007). My Virtualizer served me well for several years and it gets a 6/10 for that, but I doubt I'll ever own another one.

Product: Behringer DSP 2024P Virtualizer Pro
Price Paid: USD 100
Submitted 03/07/2007 at 03:25pm by DEATH
Email: electric_frankenstyne at yahoo<dot>com

Ease of Use : 10

This review is after 3 years of heavy use.......

It's easy to use, beginner or pro. First day out of the box I just spun dials on the presets without paying any attention and was getting great sounds. About 15 minutes later I had slowed down and had them mastered.

This is one of the easiest interfaces around. One reviewer claims to have been producing music for 12 years or whatever and says it's difficult to use which is really sad. I'd hate to see that guy go up against an Eventide in a professional situation, he'd get laughed out of the room and never find work again.

The sound quality is great. It doesn't have a harmonizer but most the effects are at least a 6-7 in quality, most are straight up 10's.

The delay and echo sounds full blown analog instead of robotic and like a loop which is a trait of a lot of other processors.

The chorus's are outstanding, some people claim they're poor but they must have elephant turds in their ears. You can even get a wicked chorus sound out of the pitch shifter.

The EQ's are also outstanding. Both the parametric and shelving. Between my amps EQ and it's EQ's I can nail any amp tone that exists. The speaker cabs and amp sims aren't my taste though.

The sound gates work really well but not so well on my effects loop.

The compression is outstanding, the decay of notes doesn't break up. It keeps them solid until they've completely faded and adds a nice roundness generally associated with tubes.

This thing has a LOT of effects. Some won't get used much if ever but they're there and the unit takes the place of a lot of different pieces of gear. It's major short coming is you can't stack 10 effects which REALLY sucks. I'd give it a higher rating on sound quality but not being able to stack compression with EQ and modulation and reverb is a huge short coming.

3 years and never a problem.
It does heat up quite a bit for a processor though, this is a first for me. I own easily half a dozen processors, none of them produce heat like this, not even close.
Overall it is solid though. The knobs would require a pretty nasty snag to snap one off and the housing is heavy gauge steel, especially the face plate.

They're hit and miss.
They have a great exchange program but hardly any music stores participate and they often won't own up to it unless you bought the item from them, they're supposed to though so muscle them around.

I had to chase them around to get my rebate. I sent it with delivery confirmation and the idiots claimed it must have been lost in the mail but I proved otherwise.

They did however replace my nephews amp with a new one so like I said, hit and miss.

The display sucks. It makes people think the unit is crap because it doesn't have a fancy word clock like an eventide or some of the Zooms, Boss's and Digitech's.

I thought by now they'd of replaced this unit with a better model. Stackable effects, say at least 6 or 7 at once, some more buttons and a much more in depth digital read out but they haven't. Would be great if they would though but keep the chrome and black scheme. I love the way it looks and it matches my amp which is chrome and black as well.

It's definitely not a toy though. It just has a simple interface and the display looks like it came from the 80's but a lot of companies are doing this with their affordable gear because they're packing so much into it otherwise they they have to cut corners somewhere.
That's what scares people off them and has them claiming it's nothing but a toy for beginners but they're also guys that own 5 thousand dollar Eventides. If it could stack a lot of effects and had a fancy readout, they'd praise it guaranteed because the sound quality is great. With some effects downright superb.

I like to call it, a professional toy.

At 100 bucks it's worth buying 2-3 of them to stack on top of one another for the true multi effects experience. The algorithms in the back of the manual imply that you can stack effects like distortion, delay and flange but if you can I haven't figured out how in 3 years and I know this unit inside out.
Hopefully we'll see a more advanced version soon but with the same affordable price tag.

Product: Behringer DSP 2024P Virtualizer Pro
Price Paid: GBP 63
Submitted 02/22/2007 at 10:37pm by D-MONIC

Ease of Use : 8

I found it a bit awkward to use at first limited to three main dials for the effects parameters means to access the last two parameters and the EQ's you have to press the edit button, compared to an analogue unit or even just a dedicated digital effects box like a reverb unit where most of the controls have there own dials it can be irritating. There can also be some awkward clicking with certain effects like the pitch shifter and some of the other unusual ones when the dials are turned so you can't go too crazy on them. Another thing is the display is so small that its sometimes hard to know what it indicates, you will need the help of the diagrams in the back of the manual to help which will be extra annoying live.
All of these points plus the delay between effects point towards it being better suited for studio work rather than live but if your just using your own presets in a traditional effects loop it won't be a problem. I'm giving it a good rating because I work in a studio and it packs in all the settings you need.
The manual seems alright. I don't really need it its pretty easy to work the Virtualizer out the parameter name of each dial (threshold, speed, depth etc..) appears on the little digital display when their turned if you don't know what these mean then study the manual.

I'm into Warp records (Aphex twin, Chris Clarke, Squarepusher, LFO) and Hip Hop and generally dark electronic music and this is a really good way of getting your hands on nearly every effect there is in a hardware form and is good for a harsh digitally styled sound. The Virtualizer has some pretty convincing distortions they have a good sound to them, still nothing compared to the real thing of course! And I found some of the modulation effects good like the resonator it sounded mad on a fat break beat. I'm not to sure about the compression it was doing the job but not as good as my proper compressor, and the other dynamic effects were similar...a bit weak. As some people have said a few effects sound noisy at first but after some high frequency damping and level tweaking it sounds better. I wasn't greatly impressed with the reverbs (and they were some of the noisy ones) still better than software but a bit to distant and subtle for my taste even my Alesis Nanoverb has nicer reverb much more dense and clear I don't use much reverb anyway.
Also the 8 bit effect doesn't seem to do anything apart from add a nasty hum in the background so don't expect any MPC60 style beats! Maybe my ones defective?
I'm giving it a 7 because the effects are so usable and theres so many of them 71!! Its very versatile I may even get another one even the pitch shifter is adequate and can be pushed to create some very unusual sounds!

Some of the buttons and dials seem a bit flimsy, the power button actually slid inside the front panel when I pressed it in but its ok now. I would gig with it but one major bash on the front and you could loose all the flimsy plastic buttons!
Just because of the problem with the power button I'm giving it below average.

I've been a musician for 12 years and making dance/hip-hop/electronic music for 8, as I said i like digital sounding dark music and this is great for really over the top effects I would get another one if it was stolen! I really like the modulation, distortion/amp, delay, the filters aren't amazing. I don't like the psycho acoustics yet but will find a use.

My Stuff:
dbx 266xl
Alesis Nanoverb
JSH Mini-Echotec MX-99
Micro Korg synth
Akai s3200 sampler
Behringer UB2442FX desk
Art Tube MP valve preamp
ADK A51 mic
Alesis Monitor Mk2 monitors
Alesis RA300 amp
PC Pentium 4
M-Audio soundcard
Edirol UM-1 MIDI interface x2

You can get some pretty impressive sounds, it a great creative tool and for the price its amazing!

Product: Behringer DSP 2024P Virtualizer Pro
Price Paid: US $89
Submitted 01/05/2006 at 02:57pm by Bill Gary

Ease of Use : 10

I red the manual before I got it and it helped alot. With a few hours of experimenting I got it down pretty much. Mine was set for mono in and it threw me for a loop thinking I had a bad cable. Editing patches is a snap. Find a preset, Press edit, Twist knobs till you find your sound, press the store button, Select a user # 1 > 100, Then press store again. Boy isnt that tough.

I was using a couple of Alesis midiverb and Microverb. Theyve worked flawlessly for at least 15 years. But moving from 16 bit to 24 makes all the difference in the world. I tried it in the stereo effects loop on the mixer but mine does have some noise. I now have it between the mixer and power amp, After my compressor/gate unit. The sound quality is good enough and each effect has EQs for trebble and bass, That I may dump the EQ's I have in my rack. Got mine set nearly at zero across the spectrum, so why not dump them and save on some sound quality? Also about this noise problem I see in these reviews.
The problem here is if your input signal is weak and you cant get the signal input LED's to peg at least half way you will have noise in the background. In other words you need Line level Input with a good clean 5DB signal or so coming into it. Many Aux and tape outs have low level signals. Also I noticed on some of the presets the trebble setting are on max which induces noise. Try Zeroing the bass and trebble and see what it does. With presets like the pitch shifter there is some Digital sampleing noise but most Shifters have this. Its the nature of the beast. Also on settings that have Gain adjustments, The presets are also set pretty hot so back them down a bit. All in all this is a great box for $89. You cant even buy one stomp box for a guitar for this much. My onee Alesis was $250.00 used 15 years ago. An amp loop may not be the best place for this. You might do better Putting it in front of the amp and adjusting the mix for the presets so they are about 10-30% wet 90-70% dry.

I do recording and live. This box is pretty multipurpose. The delay betreen the settigs is a non issue for a pa rack. The sound man can switch between settings between songs without hearing the scroll through the register which is what it was intended for. I have rack units for my guitar amp and I only tweak the Echo for different rythums or kick chorus or flange on. I have floor boxes for leads and stuff and wouldnt use this unit to take their job. This is an excellent unit for the money and expect to spend alot of creative time using it.

Product: Behringer DSP 2024P Virtualizer Pro
Price Paid: US $100
Submitted 10/14/2005 at 04:58am by Rambo
Email: m_roguski<at>yahoo dot com

Ease of Use : 10

Pretty easy to use, even without manual.

Editing patches is plain simple with 4 assignable sliders with switch that changes assigns.

Manual... welll, there is... I'd think it would be more descriptive about the effects in general, because it remains pretty much enigmatic about sound- though I'd say it's to not disapoint the user...

...because this is HOT! Really transparent, with great reverbs (and it's not combination of early and late reflections, each reverb algorithm sounds really, really different) and fx (phasers, flangers, filter effects, pitch shifting, even vocoder- though monophonic), good- but not the best chorus (Yamaha's better). Distortion and tube emulation... well, this is 100$ thing, at least it has something like that...

I'm using it with simple setup (ProMix 01 as the main mixer, Behringer UB1222FX Pro as sub mixer) as one of main fx units. In balanced setup it doesn't give any amount of noise that would be unacceptable (64dB S/N).

Well, you can't have everything, so the only bugger is that it has just two inputs which can be either configured as stereo signal or 2 mono (like for vocoder- but hell I would be glad to find just another to make carrier input stereo)

Reliability : No Opinion Hard to say, didn't broke so far, but the thick case doesn't look very convincing.

I'm into electronic music and soundtracks, and I like my Virtualizer. It just fits there. Of course, hard to compare it to t.c. electronics, but definitely it's a good replacement for Yamaha or Alesis units (if only this chorus was slightly better)... It's cheap, so if stolen, I'd buy a brand new one...

BEHRINGER V-VERB PRO REV2496

Ultra High-Performance 24-Bit/96 kHz Dual-Engine Reverb Modeler

Features

The V-VERB PRO REV2496 is a reference-class reverb modeler that simulates some of the world’s most renowned reverb processors. It draws its strength from two independent effects processors that can be accessed via both analog and digital connectors. It also features 8 high-end reverb algorithms modeled after world-class reverb processors plus additional high-quality modulation effects from X-over Delay to Chorus/Flanger plus stereo Compressor. Its high-quality 24-bit/96 kHz A/D and D/A converters plus full 96 kHz operation with both effects processors (all 4 channels!) guarantees absolute high-end performance.

There are 10 different routing configurations for flexible assignment of analog and digital signals to both stereo engines. A full-featured digital interface with AES/EBU In/Out, optical S/PDIF In/Out, Wordclock In and MIDI capability allow flexible integration with other digital equipment. An ultra high-resolution SHARC® processor with 32-bit internal signal processing assures the ultimate in sonic resolution. Yet, navigating the REV2496 is intuitive and easy, with soft push/turn encoders, a big preset wheel, high-resolution LCD display and an additional TAP button for delay times. Direct access to 4 effect parameters makes editing easy and comfortable, and you can intuitively edit up to 30 parameters using a specially designed graphic mode. Separate ROM and user preset banks put a total of 400 presets at your fingertips—and open architecture allows future software updates via MIDI. Of course, you also get balanced inputs and servo-balanced outputs with gold-plated XLR and ¼" TRS connectors.

Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro Review

Summary
Manufacturer URL	http://www.behringer.com/
Ease of Use	8.5 (10 responses)
Sound Quality	8.5 (10 responses)
Reliability	8.0 (5 responses)
Customer Support	8.7 (3 responses)
Overall Rating	8.1 (9 responses)

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro
Price Paid: 120 (GBP)
Submitted 02/17/2006 at 06:31am by Mark F
Email: mejf<at>hotmail dot com

Ease of Use : 6

This is the lowest scoring section in the review for a couple of reasons. Some of the algorithms are quite complex (the V-Verb algorithm for instance has 30 different parameters that can be edited) and it would have been extremely useful to have some simple software to allow you to edit, save and transfer patches from a PC - with all the parameters on a single page. As it is you have to edit with combinations button presses and tweaks on up to four different pages which makes it more difficult to compare results quickly between tweaks on different pages (the compare function is no good for this because I'm talking about quick on the fly comparisons between slight alterations rather than comparing changes with the previously saved version of the patch). Behringer have given us the ability to send a SysEx dump from the REV2496 to a sequencer or PC running a SysEx librarian, but because there is no software specific for the processor, it means you are stuck with a generic package. If Behringer are prepared to go to the trouble of developing an editor package for something easy to setup with minimal parameters like the V-AMP 2, it seems ridiculous that they haven't bothered with a more complex and higher quality product like this.

The editing is actually intuitive (if long winded) and the "Graph" mode is excellent, but If you ever decide you want to shift around your patch locations be prepared for a long slog because of course you can only do it one by one. This has been a pain for me because I like to keep all the reverbs together, delays together etc and the situation has arisen when I wanted to move 20 delay patches up 10 places to give me more reverb room and this turns into a real chore. Again, simple editing software could solve the problem completely and turn an hours job into a two minute job. I also like to store patches in order of depth (i.e. mild reverbs, followed by medium, followed by deep etc - or with delay I like to keep them in order of delay time settings etc) and again this means that I am likely to want to swap patches around quite frequently. If anyone knows of any generic software works well with this processor then I'd be very grateful to hear from you.

My second gripe about the unit is the MIDI implementation (like many other people). You can set up different MIDI channels for "A", "B" and COMBI patches, but why oh why didn't Behringer put the user presets first in the list and the factory presets second?! The way it is setup means that you have to send a CC message (CC0 value 1) to the unit first to select the USER bank, and then the patch number. If you have a MIDI controller that only sends program change messages then you can only select the factory presets which is utterly barmy. Who in the world is going to want to select factory presets rather than a USER preset that you have edited to your own taste? There are other MIDI controllers that work fine (any that can send CC messages and program changes with a single pedal press) so you're not just limited to Behringer's FCB1010, but unfortunately it means that people with simple "Up, Down and Select" MIDI controllers like the MIDI Mouse aren't going to be very happy. Behringer need to swap the Factory and User banks around in the next firmware upgrade and they'll have a much more attractive product.

Come on Behringer, you've got a great product here, make a couple of simple changes to give us all something 100% better!

Sound Quality : 9

That's the moaning out of the way, now onto the good bits!

I'm a guitarist and like many other guitarists I spend a lot of time and money trying to get a "perfect" distortion or a "just right" compressor etc, and I have to say that I was thoroughly fed up with doing this all the time. Unfortunately, where I live there aren't many guitar shops in close proximity that have a good selection of different makes of pedals for comparison, and so I found that I was buying effects more and more based on other peoples reviews rather than after having had the chance to try them out myself. I know it's not the best way, but we all do it sometimes. Anyway, I'd been through so many different effects trying to find the best ones for me that I really didn't want to go through it all again with reverbs.

The reverb was to be used in the parallel loop of my amps and so the one thing I had to have was a reverb that could be 100% wet. There's no point in mixing a digitized dry signal with the core guitar sound if you don't need to. I did buy a Yamaha Magicstomp a while ago and was reasonably pleased with it but it still didn't quite do it for me so I decided to look around for something new and maybe just use the Magicstomp for delay. Now unfortunately (or fortunately depending on which way you look at it) there isn't a great selection of stomp box reverbs that can be 100% wet so I decided that the best way forward was to look at a rack based processor. I'm not exactly a reverb connoisseur and so I was confident that I could find a rack based product that could give me a few decent reverbs that I'd be happy with, which is something I've found difficult from stomp boxes in the past.

Like every other guitarist I know, an Eventide was top of my list, but also like a lot of guitarists I know, I have a wife who would have objected so I thought I'd start a bit lower down the scale and save the Eclipse for another day. I'd read a few reviews about the lower spec Lexicon and TC Electronic units but remained unconvinced that they would offer me anything better than I already had, but then I came across the REV2496. I have owned Behringer equipment in the past and have always been impressed by the quality for the price, so I though this may be an interesting product to look at. I read all the usual Harmony Central reviews etc, and also two very positive pro reviews (one at Sound on Sound and one at Music Tech Magazine) and so decided that for the price it had to be worth a try particularly as the price was less than a Boss RV5 reverb pedal!

As far as the quality of effects go I must say that I am completely delighted with this product. I tend to be quite reserved with reverb, and creating good quality low-key patches seemed easy enough. I particularly liked the presets "SMALL&CLEAR" and "NICE HALL", and there is a preset called "SINGLEVOICE" which is a damped Cathedral reverb, and it just seems to sound great with my setup. Some slight tweaking on the decay and levels and this has become the standard reverb that I now use. There are some really nice "big" reverbs too such as "WIDE SPACE" which gives a real dreamscape type haunting echo. All in all the reverbs are extremely diverse and very tweakable, although I have found that the smaller room reverbs are a bit of a waste of time, but this may just be my setup (or the mix I use with the parallel effects loop of my amp). Maybe they would be more obvious used in a serial loop with a 50/50 wet dry mix in the processor, but for my use they are too bland and subdued. My favourite algorithms are Cathedral and V-Verb, but have made good patches with most of the algorithms available. I tend to pass over the Ambience, Gated and Reverse algorithm which don't really do anything for me.

Delays are excellent and I have a number of patches for simple delays programmed in at a variety of time settings, along with multi taps. Getting an analog sound is quite easy using the EQ settings in the patch to cut the highs in the feedback. You are limited to a maximum of 1 second with delay and although this is more than enough for me, it may not be enough for some people out there. The Magicstomp is going back in the cupboard for the time-being!

Modulation effects really surprised me because I was expecting an average collection that I wouldn't even consider using, but the reality of the situation has greatly exceeded my expectations. Again there are lots of parameters that you can tweak to get things just right for you and I have been very impressed with the flanger and phaser, both of which are highly editable, and have given great results that I would be more than happy to use. The chorus really knocked me out. I had spent a long time trying to get the right chorus pedal and had settled on an EH Small Clone (which I still love). I didn't expect the REV2496to get anywhere close to it but I was wrong. I programmed in a patch that absolutely nailed the Small Clone sound in about 30 seconds. The big advantage of the REV2496though is that it is much more tweakable and so once I've got a speed and modulation delay I'm happy with I can do so much more to shape the final sound. Things like altering the wave form pattern, increasing the gain in the low EQ and high EQ independently (and at editable frequencies), using 2, 4, 6 or 8 voice chorus to really thicken things up, adding pre-delay etc etc. Very complex editing possibilities, and spectacular results. My Small Clone will remain in my pre-amplifier signal chain, but I really don't know how much I'll use it now seeing as the RE2496 can be shaped so much more. The added advantage of having multiple chorus patches that can be called up by a MIDI controller is also another huge advantage of course.

The tremolo effect is good (and again highly editable) but I have only bothered storing a couple of chopper type patches at different speeds, as I don't use the effect very much.

I've only used the compressor to try it out and won't have any real use for it. I use a pedal compressor before the amp input that I'm very happy with although the REV2496 compressor did seem to do the job and I suppose I may use some light compression in the effects loop from time to time, but I am more interested in the other effects.

I can't give it a 10 because I know that the high end processors like the Eventide Eclipse will ultimately do most if not everything better (with other important effects like the intelligent harmonizer which puts it on a different level), but I would say that even if this only give you 75% of what the Eventide will give you with it's comparable effects, for 1/15th of the price it seems like the bargain of the year to me. This is especially true when you bear in mind that 75% of the very best still means that the RE2496 is giving you extremely high quality effects. I'd still give it 9.5 out of 10 based on a quality to price ratio alone. It's reverbs, delay and modulation effects are certainly better than any other multi effect unit I own, or any I have previously owned and I can't imagine too many stomp boxes out there being better.

Reliability : 9

Buttons and knobs are responsive and seem to be high quality, and the case is very sturdy. No problems so far and I don't expect any.

Customer Support : 9

I've sent them numerous email asking for advice, and also offering them some as per the "Ease of Use" section above. They have responded quickly, courteously and efficiently and have given me the info I needed in every case. Of course my suggestions have been "Passed to R&D" and we may never hear anything about them again, but if they want to do themselves a favour they will listen to what their customers tell them and try to make their products better. Particularly with things that could be easily implemented in firmware updates like swapping the factory and user bank numbers around.

Overall Rating : 8

I've been playing guitar for 24 years, mainly rock and classic metal, and the following guitars are the ones I have kept out of many:

Guitars:

Gibson Les Paul Standard - bought new in 89. Tobacco sunburst.

Ibanez RG770FM - Japanese model. Transparent blue flamed maple

BC Rich Mockingbird Natural Neck Thru with Full Shred pickup in the bridge position, Alnico Pro II in the neck and custom switching arrangement for coil taps and reverse phase in both pickups.

Hohner G3T (Steinberger copy) with Super Distortion pickup in the bridge and 2 x Little 59s in the neck and middle position. 3 individual mini switches to select each pickup as either full humbucking, coil tapped or off.

Jackson PS4 Performer

Ibanez PC300CENT Electro Acoustic

And my effects setup is always changing but at present it is as follows:

Guitar
v
Doobtone Micro Buffer 2
v
MIDI relay switcher (8 individual effect loops, 7 pre-amplifier and 1 unused spare in the effects loop)
Loop 1 - Rack Tuner
Loop 2 - Guyatone ST-2 Compressor (or Marshall ED1)
Loop 3 - Keeley Seeing Eye Mod Boss DS-1 > Danelectro Fish n Chips EQ
Loop 4 - Behringer VD1 (or Zoom HL-01) > Danelectro Fish n Chips EQ
Loop 5 - Behringer VP1 (Small Stone copy)
Loop 6 - Electro Harmonix Small Clone
Loop 7 - Unused spare
v
ISP Decimator (used if and when required)
v
BBE DI100X Sonic Maximizer (always on)
v
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Amp Input
v
Effects Loop Send
====================
v
MIDI relay switcher (continued)
Loop 8 - Unused spare
v
Boss LS-2 (in A+B Mix mode)
Loop 1 - Digitech Quad 4 (for harmony, 100% WET)
v (serial link - right output to right input)
Loop 2 - Behringer REV2496 (reverb/delay, 100% WET)
v
====================
Effects Loops return

All MIDI controlled by a Behringer FCB1010 floorboard.

I also have a number of other effects including a Yamaha Magicstomp, Boss ME-50, Zoom G2, Arion DDS1 stereo delay/sampler and quite a lot of other single stomp boxes that I've experimented with over the years, but these aren't used in my current setup.

Basically the MIDI relay switcher has 8 x 1/4" send and return jacks for the loops, a guitar in, amp out, effects send and effects return jacks so all connections between guitar, effects and amp are made via this controller. The controller is sent a CC message to turn on the tuner loop, and a program change (between 1 and 128) to turn on loops 2 - 8. So if the program change was 25, the controller would see that as a seven digit binary string 0011001 and so would switch on loops 1, 4 and 5 (the position of every "1" in the string). This makes it simple because I only have to send a simple, single program change every time to change multiple effects.

The rack processors are of course controlled by MIDI.

My amps are an AVT150 combo with AVT112 extension cab and an ENGL Thunder 50 head which I use with the AVT cabs. There are good points and bad points about both amps so I plan on building an amp switcher to allow me to choose which amp to use on the fly, and insert the effects in the appropriate loop. This is a bit more complicated because I need to load the unused amp, but the remote switching options it will give me would make it a much more versatile setup when completed.

All in all this is a high quality multi effects processor for the price of a single mid range stomp box. The overall rating is only 8 because of my concerns, but if they were to make the improvements suggested it would be even better.

I know some people will obviously disagree with me based on a couple of the other reviews below, but I really haven't found the reverbs to be harsh in any way and to me the unit is capable of giving some really excellent and atmospheric reverb. The other effects are a bonus, but a fantastic bonus in my opinion. One caveat is that I haven't used this processor for anything else other than my guitars at this stage, although I do intend to give it a thorough workout vocally to see how it performs.

I still intend to buy an Eventide Eclipse, probably some time this year, but not because I am unhappy with the REV2496, far from it. I want the Eclipse primarily now because of the high quality (and importantly multi voice) harmonizer, and the ability to create custom harmony scales which would be very useful for me. I have no doubt that when I do buy it, it will take over from both of my effect processors and do everything. But I must say that if my budget didn't stretch that far the REV2496 is a more than capable alternative that I believe sits easily with the mid range / mid priced processors, but at a much lower cost. There certainly aren't many processors that I would replace it with and the only likely candidates will be at the higher end of the market costing a lot more money.

Excellent value with a few faults, but if you can live with them and you're prepared to put in the time and effort, you'll be well rewarded.

Summary
Manufacturer URL	http://www.behringer.com/
Ease of Use	8.2 (38 responses)
Sound Quality	8.1 (38 responses)
Reliability	8.7 (26 responses)
Customer Support	7.7 (17 responses)
Overall Rating	8.2 (33 responses)

BEHRINGER DSP2024P

Behringer DSP2024P Virtualizer Pro Features:

71 new algorithms

Wave-adaptive Virtual Room reverb

Modulation, dynamic, psychoacoustic, and EQ algorithms

Amp simulation, distortion, and special effects

11 effect combinations

Up to 7 adjustable parameters plus 2-band EQ per effect

24-bit A/D/A converters

64/128X oversampling

True stereo processing

24-bit internal processing

Behringer DSP 2024P Virtualizer Pro Reviews

BEHRINGER V-VERB PRO REV2496

Ultra High-Performance 24-Bit/96 kHz Dual-Engine Reverb Modeler

Features

Reference-class reverb modeling processor with high-quality 24-bit/96 kHz A/D and D/A converters

Full 4-channel operation up to 96 kHz without any limitations, providing two separate effects processors in one unit

8 high-end reverb algorithms, modeled after world-class reverb processors

Additional high-quality modulation effects from X-over Delay to Chorus/Flanger plus stereo Compressor

Full-featured digital interface with AES/EBU In/Out, optical S/PDIF In/Out, Wordclock In and MIDI function for flexible use with digital equipment

Ultra high-resolution SHARC® processor with 32-bit internal signal processing for ultimate sonic resolution

10 different routing types for flexible assignment of analog and digital connectors to both stereo engines

Innovative user interface with soft push/turn encoders, big preset wheel, high-resolution graphic LCD display and additional TAP button for delay times

Direct access to 4 effect parameters makes editing easy and comfortable

Intuitive editing of up to 30 parameters using specially designed graphic mode

Separate ROM and user preset banks with 400 presets total

Balanced inputs and servo-balanced outputs with gold-plated XLR and ¼" TRS connectors

Open architecture allows future software updates via MIDI

Internal switch-mode power supply for maximum flexibility (100 - 240 V~), noise-free audio, superior transient response plus lowest possible power consumption for energy saving

Ultra-rugged construction ensures long life, even under most demanding conditions

Conceived and designed by BEHRINGER Germany

Behringer Spec Sheet.

Behringer Manual.

Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro Review

Summary

Manufacturer URL

http://www.behringer.com/

Ease of Use

8.5 (10 responses)

Sound Quality

8.5 (10 responses)

Reliability

8.0 (5 responses)

Customer Support

8.7 (3 responses)

Overall Rating

8.1 (9 responses)

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro Price Paid: USD 99 Submitted 05/10/2008 at 01:01pm by EMAN Ease of Use : 10

Sound Quality : 10

Reliability : No Opinion

Customer Support : 10

Their website is complete with manuals and information.

Overall Rating : 10

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro Price Paid: USD 99 Submitted 04/18/2008 at 02:48am by paul Ease of Use : 9

It's easy to use and all, but built quality is bad, had to go through 3 of them to get the one on which all knobs worked.

Sound Quality : 8

Sound quality is ok for a $99 unit.

Reliability : 3

Not reliable, poor behringer quality. Like i said above, had to return a couple of them.

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 4

Overall - :( if you use computer and need a reverb, a much better option would be to get ArtsAcoustic reverb plugin, really good reverb for about $180, if you want an even cheaper reverb, try cakewalk's sonitus reverb for just $50.

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro Price Paid: aus 300 Submitted 04/01/2007 at 03:28am by Hollandturbine Ease of Use : 9

The menu is easy to navigate and editing patches is not to hard, how ever I prefer to edit from my computer so I made a Cubase midi device panel for this unit so I could tweak my V-Verb from within cubase if you use Cubase, you can find it here http://www.dhoop.de/

Sound Quality : 9

Reliability : No Opinion

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 9

For the price of a plugin you get a realy good hardware effects unit that will not tax your computers resources. it is cheap but it's sound is not, this is a good bit of kit.

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro Price Paid: 120 (GBP) Submitted 02/17/2006 at 06:31am by Mark F Email: mejf<at>hotmail dot com Ease of Use : 6

Sound Quality : 9

Reliability : 9

Buttons and knobs are responsive and seem to be high quality, and the case is very sturdy. No problems so far and I don't expect any.

Customer Support : 9

Overall Rating : 8

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro Price Paid: N/A Submitted 01/18/2006 at 12:08pm by Dan Ease of Use : No Opinion

Sound Quality : No Opinion

Reliability : No Opinion

Customer Support : No Opinion

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro
Price Paid: USD 99
Submitted 05/10/2008 at 01:01pm by EMAN

Ease of Use : 10

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro
Price Paid: USD 99
Submitted 04/18/2008 at 02:48am by paul

Ease of Use : 9

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro
Price Paid: aus 300
Submitted 04/01/2007 at 03:28am by Hollandturbine

Ease of Use : 9

For the price of a plugin you get a realy good hardware effects unit that will not tax your computers resources.
it is cheap but it's sound is not, this is a good bit of kit.

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro
Price Paid: 120 (GBP)
Submitted 02/17/2006 at 06:31am by Mark F
Email: mejf<at>hotmail dot com

Ease of Use : 6

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted 01/18/2006 at 12:08pm by Dan

Ease of Use : No Opinion

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted 01/10/2006 at 10:24am by Jurgen (NL)
Email: pluwin at cs<dot>com

Ease of Use : 8

Tried it in a music store today.
Thinking of buying one.
It seemed easy enough.
Unfortunately, the one in the music shop today got jammed from time to time.
I'd like to know wether these things occur more often.

Could be a 10 if it works well.
If not, a 1 would be more appropriate.

Product: Behringer REV2496 V-Verb Pro
Price Paid: US $300
Submitted 07/30/2005 at 02:30pm by Martin Dahlberg
Email: modmaker<at>hotmail dot com

Ease of Use : 8