Why no "High End" Behringer Modeler ...... seriously ?

[ballhawk]

I do believe they would go about it by buying a company first though. That is their MO.

I wish they would have acquired Atomic.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I wish they would have acquired Atomic.

That'd actually be a cool idea. I mean, Atomic is worthless. Maybe even less than that. But some of their code is just great.

 

[Richard_G]

I haven’t had anything from Zoom since my Zoom 2020 in the mid (?) nineties. I’d be surprised if I’ll ever have anything from Zoom again.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I can only imagine how a "high end" Behringer modeler would be received. Everyone would be on a crusade to prove how worthless it was.

Defenitely not me. But as I can't imagine them to come up with something different, it'd likely not be for me anyway. Simply because I've got plenty of "not something different" units already.
They could however as well have the ressources to come up with, say, a NAM based modeler. That could save them all amp/dirt development efforts (the unit obviously had to be pre-loaded with very carefully selected captures to deliver instant gratification) and it'd be a very interesting thing for many people. Or even just an amp/dirt only NAM and IR loading pedal, kinda like the Boss IR-200. Make sure latency is very low, offer it for 200 and it'd sell like hot cakes.

 

[Digital Igloo]

Get ready for the Felix Rack, Felix Floor, and Felix LT. To be followed next year by the FX Effects, FX Stomp, and FX Stomp XL.

Since this post, I suspect that if Line 6 were still a small independent company (that hadn't already won a "POD" trademark suit from Apple), they might just straight up call it "HELIX" and counter any dissent with threats from their army of bloodsucking lawyers.

 

[Digital Igloo]

Be honest. Your parent company is even bigger and has even more lawyers.

Which is why they might call it "Felix" instead, although their Felix would more likely be their name for a shameless "clone" of Grace's acoustic preamp.

 

[Sascha Franck]

If I was Uli Behringer, I would wait for the Helix2 to release, then I would copy the design and sell it at 2/3rds the price. That seems to be how they operate.

You really think that'd be as trivial?

 

[Sascha Franck]

You've got a tiny company like Ampero who made an HX stomp copy but gave it a touchscreen. I think Behringer could manage.

Well, we can instantly stop this discussion if you really think the Ampero is a Stomp copy.

 

[Sascha Franck]

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[paisleywookiee]

Since this post, I suspect that if Line 6 were still a small independent company (that hadn't already won a "POD" trademark suit from Apple), they might just straight up call it "HELIX" and counter any dissent with threats from their army of bloodsucking lawyers.

Yeah they’re shameless, with the Centaur and the fuzz pedal that ripped the Keeley name.

 

[Diary Of An Axeman]

And if Behringer made a World Class Modeler unit, the butt hurt from gear snobs would be off the charts ..... kind of like running naked, backwards thru a corn field.

I could hear them turds a crying !!!!

 

[dronerstone]

And if Behringer made a World Class Modeler unit, the butt hurt from gear snobs would be off the charts ..... kind of like running naked, backwards thru a corn field.

Despite all my disgust against Behringer, this might be true.

 

[paisleywookiee]

And if Behringer made a World Class Modeler unit, the butt hurt from gear snobs would be off the charts ..... kind of like running naked, backwards thru a corn field.

I could hear them turds a crying !!!!

No, why would they? Line 6 does a great job with algorithms and design.

 

[Jarick]

I just think of David Brewster from Late Night Lessons...he's been running a Behringer V-Amp Pro into I don't know what kind of power amp and speaker, and he sounds great. But he sounds great because he's a phenomenal player, like a top 0.1%.

 

[Sidler72]

I just think of David Brewster from Late Night Lessons...he's been running a Behringer V-Amp Pro into I don't know what kind of power amp and speaker, and he sounds great. But he sounds great because he's a phenomenal player, like a top 0.1%.

I love Davids videos I watch them all the time.

 

[Jarick]

I love Davids videos I watch them all the time.

Coincidentally looks like he just upgraded to a Kemper:



Not sure what he's playing through though.

I love that he upgrade from a 25 year old modeler to a 15 year old modeler lol

 

[Diary Of An Axeman]

No, why would they? Line 6 does a great job with algorithms and design.

At one time, in the early 2000's, Line6 was considered a joke, much worse than Behringer today.

 

[Lysander]

At one time, in the early 2000's, Line6 was considered a joke, much worse than Behringer today.

I'd agree about L6 not having the pedigree it has today, but, "much worse than Berhringer"?!

By the early 2000s Line6 had launched multiple original popular products already, such as the original POD bean and the DL4.

 

[Digital Igloo]

At one time, in the early 2000's, Line6 was considered a joke, much worse than Behringer today.

Yeah, I call BS. I'm not saying our Spider practice amps were highly regarded amongst cork sniffers tube snobs, but POD and DL4 were everywhere in the early 2000s. It was rare to find a major studio on the planet without a red bean somewhere in the control room. The V-Amp was embraced by dealers who weren't authorized to sell Line 6 (but really wanted to), and it was always seen as a pale rip-off by studios, dealers, distributors, and the press. At least Johnson's J-Station had some original ideas and sounded good.

 

[Sascha Franck]

The V-Amp was embraced by dealers who weren't authorized to sell Line 6 (but really wanted to), and it was always seen as a pale rip-off by studios, dealers, distributors, and the press. At least Johnson's J-Station had some original ideas and sounded good.

Truth be told: I owned both a VAmp 2 and a POD 2 simultaneously and ended up using the POD for recordings whereas I'd use the VAmp live, simply because it offered better playing dynamics.