Behringer Virtualizer 3D FX2000 Multi-Engine FX Video 1/2

[@sandyturner1911]

I am where you are, right now. I used to do a lot of recording on Ipad, which works great, and then I moved across country, in the middle of the pandemic, and I have been working on my house, for 2.5 yrs. Now I'm trying to get back to work. I have decided to go down the rabbit hole of the patch bay, rack mount, route..I have the Model 12, and I have my guitar setup in good shape, now I'm doing the Desktop module Synth setup thing...Thanks for running through the Behringer.

[@waimeaguyz9074]

Concert and plate reverbs great for vocals, but up to you what you prefer. Thanks for the demo.

[@toddthomas4761]

Thanks for posting. It's shocking how few number of videos there are displaying this unit in action.

[@QuestForGear]

No worries, glad you come something out of it.

[@johnkammerer2198]

This is a great video - thanks!!

[@MikeFoerster]

I have a TC electronic M350 Effects board, I use the ping pong effect on vocals, helps pull them out a bit more.

[@QuestForGear]

Cool! I think I might have knew that at one point. Not bad in a pinch right? I'd have to look back at my videos and see if I had the 350.

[@MikeFoerster]

@@QuestForGearWhat I like about the 350 is that it offers two inputs so I can use two effect sends and then it comes back into a stereo system. So I can have a special echo, like ping pong, on one and then have a reverb on the second one.

[@QuestForGear]

Just checked...I had the M300. Totally regret selling it. I really have to stop selling stuff. Maybe I'll grab the 350 you have when I can.

[@MikeFoerster]

I wonder if I should start doing a disclaimer as well. Lol

[@QuestForGear]

Oh no, are you getting trolls now too? I figured you wouldn't cause you're a nice guy and don't complain as much as I do. I literally post a video explaining - YES I SHOULD HAVE TESTED THE DEVICE - BUT I DIDNT - and I got a guy commenting that I should have 'tested the device'.... so I don't think my disclaimers are working. I'm not going to put up with it though .... 300 subscribers or 1,000,000 - there's going to be idiots - I'm simply going to HIDE BUTTON the worst to them - there's plenty of cool people to deal with, I don't need low wattage riff raff wasting everyone's time in the comments.

[@MikeFoerster]

@@QuestForGearI've been trolls since the beginning. I don't get a lot, but they do pop up ever so often. I generally just ignore them

[@QuestForGear]

Oh I'm surprised! I shake my head - why would anyone troll your channel? I can kind of see mine - I ham it up a bit, complain - sometimes push the drama a bit... but your channel? I guess we can't be friends with everyone... but I would never stop by people's channels and say some of this stuff. It's weird, and I'm sure with more subs, its going to get worse. 99% of the time - the tolls have no channel themselves.

[@MikeFoerster]

@@QuestForGearTrue. If you listen to my first podcast I talk about a guy who was pissed off that I made a mistake in my video (even put the time stamp in the message to show me where), even though I realized my mistake about 10 seconds after I made it, and decided to write a page long message about how I am not a "professional" engineer because of the terms I used. I've never professed to being a professional. I ended up finding his website where he talks extremely highly of himself like he was something important in the 80s. Also found a song he released in the 90's which sucked. He stated that it was because music had changed to rap, which wasn't true since I was listening to alt rock in the 90s. I ended up calling him a sad old man who's life didn't turn out the way he had hoped. He had three videos on his site, but he never spoke in any of them so I couldn't tell if he was any good at it.

[@QuestForGear]

Wow so strange. I make TONS of mistakes - every single video I make - I make a ton of mistakes. WHO CARES??? I mispronounce words, use the wrong words, sometimes say things that are just wrong - WHO CARES??? It's supposed to be people who like recording gear making videos about gear - for other people who like recording gear. Unreal. Ah well, we will just have to ignore them. Mostly.

[@MikeFoerster]

Tascam DP24/32 has a built in De-esser.

[@QuestForGear]

Oh nice. I've barely needed one... but you know, it happens. Usually with stuff other people have recorded.

[@miltonmagik]

I've just bought the virtualizer to be used on the Tascam Model 24 as well, but this mixer already has a bunch of reverbs and delays, so I'm wondering if I should keep the virtualizer just for the rest of the effects. I find a few of them OK but the rest are just average. Another downside is that since the Model 24 does not have Send and return, the virtualizer takes one valuable stereo channel reducing the number of inputs. Just a thought.

[@QuestForGear]

I would (and I do) keep the Behringer around for Cheap Quirks and Kinks. You just never know. I wouldn't use it as a primary reverb - but I'd bust the Ring Mod or vocoder out for fun!

[@oinkooink]

It's got 2 inputs has it? So you could run say a vocal into 1 and a guitar into 2 and apply a different reverb to each?

[@QuestForGear]

I don't see why not! I'll try this asap.

[@johanneschristopherstahle3395]

You would have to be able to select different presets for both channels. I don't see how this should be possible on this unit, but maybe the manual knows something about that. The Yamaha SPX 990 does have some algorithms that do process both channels separately...

[@tj1486]

This thing is cool for the price. I'm trying to figure out if it can chain effects and how many at a time.

[@QuestForGear]

The last several presets are effect combos... and you could cable the back from 1 engine to the next (i think) and there are some funky output options in the setup. Your best bet is to check the manual.

[@ASMR_By_Design]

I love the commentary of a usual jackass in a comment section lol Really dig your videos and your ethos of workflow. P.s. I may or may not steal the term "low wattage riff raff" I love that

[@QuestForGear]

lol thanks! I have a real doosey coming tonight... have to respond to some extremely bizarre comments I got on another video. I never start the crap - but I'll finish it!

[@JonDeth]

Rack processors are now nearly extinct. I have a couple of these and a REV2496, and this still serves some purpose on a head's effects loop, but I think everyone just uses guitar floor units for anything they want to process, especially things like vocals while performing live. They're so cheap, allow you to layer a dozen effects, and have incredibly deep parameter functions for as little as a hundred bucks. It's still strange to see them abandon by the mfr. industry. I use this for the graphic EQ, trem, reverbs, delays and the vocoder is pretty badass. A few other decent and useful effects, but a lot really are just so very crude and outdated lol.

[@QuestForGear]

Nice! I just envision not turn my computer on.. Hasn't really happened yet. It's tough to abandoned all the waves and UA plug-in I've paid for.

[@JonDeth]

@@QuestForGear one area I really hit the lottery with was being in need of a drum machine, and I guess about 8 years ago I decided to do one last search for android apps for my tablet, and I found the holy grail of DAW's as well as dedicated drum machines. I have some top notch paid DAW's for PC, as well as free like MPC Beats, but Caustic, Bandpass, Beat Stomper and a couple others that are free are superior to any hardware drum machine you can buy. I have a lot of paid plugins but far more that are free and easily match expensive paid ones, but GFD does it take sifting through literally hundreds to find them. This Behringer unit has some goofy ass effects that can be pretty "low-fi", but relative to that is you can get highly unique sounds out of them that the same effect from something more expensive cannot replicate. It's largely the heavy compression from the processing that gives them that unique quality. Mine is on one of my ratty solid-state heads, and the graphic EQ on the effects loop truly performs miracles. I have a few tube heads, and some high end solid-states, but get sounds out of a few cheapos that are impossible to beat, even with my expensive tube gear.

[@QuestForGear]

Nice! Cool to hear someone else is using this older stuff!