Behringer BTR TUNER ?

Wes Hamshaw · From: Pacific City, Oregon * R.I.P.

Anybody had a chance to try one of these yet? It looks
pretty good for $60.00.

Thanks........Wes

Bob Martin · From: Madison Tn

I have heard reviews going both directions but I think I'll buy one and try it. I have yet to buy something from behringer that didn't work great so I'm going to gamble.

The things I heard negative were it took a long time to detect the pitch and then it didn't stay locked in very long but keep in mind that the person reviewing the tuner may not know what he is doing. There's lots of reasons for that kind of action the 1st being a low input signal and the 2nd one being very old strings so I'm going to check one out. I'll let you know what I find out.

Bob

Bob Martin · From: Madison Tn

Hi Wes I just ordered it from zzsounds 59.00 bucks no shipping charges. I'll let you know how it is when it comes in.

Bob

Bob Martin · From: Madison Tn

Hi Wes, as promised here's a short review of the behringer BTR 2000 rack mount tuner. It's purdy and shines real nice Smile

and it will do more than expected. It's not only a Chromatic 7 octave tuner but a nice metronome and a very nice rack light.

The rack light is a very nice feature for my old eyes in a dark room they are halogen lights and very bright and they light up my rack very nicely. What can I say about the metronome it's fine and can be set from 30 to 240 bpm's man that's hauling you know what. It has audible and visual cues along with a simulation of a meter ticking back and forth on the tuner dial or just a beep.

Now what you all want to know how's the tuner well I think it's a keeper. The display is very bright and about 7 to 8 inches across and can be set to display in different modes. Unfortunantly no strobe mode but to tell you the truth I very seldom used the strobe mode on my last Korg.

You can set the tuner to display in 1 cent increments and can be scaled to show 10 cent to 50 cent increments on the tuner face itself. There are to many features to go thru here but the bottom line is it tunes a 6 string guitar very well it registers the note very fast and holds on to it until the note is tuned. On my strat I got it to hold the note from 3 to 5 seconds before it dropped it which is about the same as my last Korg DTR-1.

It also tuned a 5 string bass very well and held the lower notes for just as long if not longer so I know it will tune the steel guitar low notes just fine.

Unfortunantly I don't have my steel here yet so I couldn't try it out but my buddy will be over here later this week with his and we'll try it out then.

My advice is if you want a nice tuner that is guaranteed accurate within 1/5 of a cent and you don't want to spend a lot go for it. It was only 59.00 out the door at ZZSounds on the web no shipping.

The peterson tuners that most steel folks here will opt for if they can afford them are guaranteed accurate within 1/10 of a cent so they will be 2 times more accurate but I doubt that most people will ever be able to hear the difference between 1/5 and 1/10th of a cent. Most tuners like boss and korg tuners only offer anywhere from 1/2 to even 1 cent accuracy and I know lots of folks that can hear that kind of difference.

So if you have had a Boss TU series or the boss stomp box tuner and liked the accuracy you will love the accuracy of this tuner.

Bob

Wes Hamshaw · From: Pacific City, Oregon * R.I.P.

Bob, Thanks for getting back with your very thorough review of the BTR 2000 tuner. It seems that Bahringer gets a somewhat bum rap on many of the things they
make. As someone on the Forum said in a prior post “ I don’t care if it’s made on the moon, if it can do the job for way less money - I’m gonna go with it”

I don’t know if anyone else is convinced that this is worth the $60.00 or not but I am willing to try it. Recently I just purchased a Bahringer mixer PMH 2000 and I couldn’t
be more please with it - all the features you could want - a great unit.

Thanks again Bob, for your time and checking this out.........Wes

David Spangler · From: Kerrville, TX USA

I was considering one but after reading the negative reviews on Harmony Central, decided against it. I see that Fender offers a rack tuner now for just a little more but with fewer features. It got better reviews. I ended up with a slightly used Korg DT1000 which I like.

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David Spangler

Jack Stoner · From: Kansas City, MO

The Behringer stuff works. How well?? Since it's "reverse engineered" (copied) from existing products the "new" Behringer models are one or two revisions or models behind whatever they are copying.

I tried a couple of Behringer mixing boards and at low levels they sounded good, but if the gain was jacked up they tended to get a little noisy compared to a Peavey or Mackie board. If price is the main consideration then the Behringer equipment will suffice.

I had a Behringer "Virtualizer Pro" rack effects processor. It worked pretty good as long as I didn't want to do any modification to the programs and there it was very limited. I tried recording with it and it was too noisy, too.

David Mason · From: Cambridge, MD, USA

I think Behringer does a good job of providing cheap stuff, the same quality as any other Chinese-made audio equipment (like, most of it these days). However, I don't think they have anybody in engineering to listen to their products. They're O.K. if you just need something boosted or split (or tuned) or something, but their active tone circuitry is hit-or-miss. Sometimes you get lucky....

P.S. (I think maybe their best function is in keeping the prices from other manufacturers down, people who want to sell you two transistors, three knobs and a "brand" name for $250 - $50 for the parts and $200 for the name.)

[This message was edited by David Mason on 10 September 2006 at 04:39 AM.]

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