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Topic: Behringer Ultradrive Problems Poll
Posted By: norty303
Subject: Behringer Ultradrive Problems Poll
Date Posted: 02 December 2008 at 8:10pm
Ok, so we seem to get lots of requests about this unit, and also lots of comments about Behringer reliability.  Lots of people think that this is one of the 'good ones' but it would be interesting to see how the stats pan out.
 
I've allowed multiple votes as people have owned/own multiple units with varying outcomes.  Please don't abuse the poll by impoper voting as it skews what might be a useful piece of info.
 
If you vote one of the 'other' options, please elaborate here with the details of the problems, so we can see if there are many common issues.
 
 
I'll leave this stickied for a while then see what we do with it if it produces anything useful.


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Posted By: Richard Hart
Date Posted: 02 December 2008 at 8:19pm
I've got two. One is magic, and the other one sometimes has no output on output one, a re-boot seems to sort this.
 
My synopsis is that they're a fantastic unit for the price, and a great unit too. (if that makes sense...) 


Posted By: WhiteElephantSounds
Date Posted: 02 December 2008 at 8:26pm
An old batch one, frying egg and then a dramatic 240 volt from the outputs Angry

New one seems fine, constantly expecting it to die now though. Great piece of kit, price is a bonus.






Posted By: chickenfizz
Date Posted: 02 December 2008 at 8:34pm
Cast my three votes :)

1st one I had (in 2003 I think and for the saucy price of over £300!) had at least 3 faults, frying eggs, LCD backlight unreliable, flickered, went off or dim etc and first and 4th output would drop out sometimes which required tapping the unit near the XLRs to restore sound and the encoder on the front sometimes went crazy and would jump up and down all over the place instead of in controlled increments, it was quite a state. To be fair it had been uncased most of it's life and toured and behringer replaced it free of charge only days away from the warranty running out.

The 2nd one, the replacement was much better, an op-amp on one of the outputs failed causing the signal to be half leg which wasn't a huge problem and was able to repair it myself. It went on for a few years before developing the frying egg problem intermittantly, as far as I know it's still in use as a 2 way x-over on the non-frying channels in a dodgy bar in south sheilds.

My third and current ultradrive is maybe about 3 years old and has never had a fault and been used many times on dodgy generators etc.

Despite being on my 3rd one I love the DCXs, they're so flexible and nice while they work! Using DRPAs at work makes me appreciate how user friendly and flexible the DCX is. In many ways they're more flexible than DP226 or 224 in terms of the input routing especially.


Posted By: MarjanM
Date Posted: 02 December 2008 at 8:34pm
I have two.
One about 4 years old and one half a yer old.

I have put some plastic insulation between the chase (bottom) and the PCB as soon as i get the units and have no problems at all.

My theory is that because the unit gets fairly hot during use, after some period of use the bottom of the chase gets a little curved towards the inside (closer to the pcb) and start gently touching the pcb. That is the source of the "egg noise".

I have discovered this on a friend unit that started to make that noise, and when you hit the unit it created a "kick sound" on the speakers.

A very easy fix that should hot steer you away from this unit. I find if extremely good value for the money.

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Posted By: chickenfizz
Date Posted: 02 December 2008 at 8:36pm
Originally posted by Richard Hart Richard Hart wrote:

I've got two. One is magic, and the other one sometimes has no output on output one, a re-boot seems to sort this.
 


...interesting, my intermittent output problems were with output one also.


Posted By: chickenfizz
Date Posted: 02 December 2008 at 8:39pm
Originally posted by MarjanM MarjanM wrote:

I have two.
One about 4 years old and one half a yer old.

I have put some plastic insulation between the chase (bottom) and the PCB as soon as i get the units and have no problems at all.

My theory is that because the unit gets fairly hot during use, after some period of use the bottom of the chase gets a little curved towards the inside (closer to the pcb) and start gently touching the pcb. That is the source of the "egg noise".

I have discovered this on a friend unit that started to make that noise, and when you hit the unit it created a "kick sound" on the speakers.

A very easy fix that should hot steer you away from this unit. I find if extremely good value for the money.

Regards


This is interesting (and certainly not a bad idea) though the egg problem is usually associated with the ribbon cables and mine tend not to run hot either. Could it be that when you dissasembled the unit to install the plastic you re-made a bad connection better?


Posted By: soundsystemdan
Date Posted: 02 December 2008 at 8:54pm
I've cast my two votes.
1- early batch frying egg, fixed by replacing the ribbon cable. I also insulted the bottom of the casing from the inside while I was in there, no problems since.

2- second unit I bought about a year ago, after a few months it went down, giving no output and no display, although the display was backlit. I have recieved a replacemnt which has yet to be used.


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Posted By: norty303
Date Posted: 02 December 2008 at 9:05pm
Quote Could it be that when you dissasembled the unit to install the plastic you re-made a bad connection better?
 
I think a lot of the problems where people experience noise on the outputs are actually due to the IDC header/ribbon cable problem.  As you surmise, you have to move/disturb this piece in order to do the other fixes so it's actually a red herring.  The fact that a number of the units (my old one included) had the insulation fix done and then later went on to re-develop the noise problem adds weight to this theory.  Same as fiddling with the XLR's, this causes the I/O board to be moved inside slightly, again, flexing the ribbon cable at the IDC header.


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Posted By: roborg
Date Posted: 02 December 2008 at 9:10pm
you missed some options from the poll:
 
an early model (first batch) and suffered 'organic frying eggs' prob
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Posted By: norty303
Date Posted: 02 December 2008 at 9:25pm
And then there's all subtle variations like 'frying bacon', 'unsmoked streaky', etc  Big smile

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Posted By: dlyxover
Date Posted: 02 December 2008 at 9:27pm
i just got one and the main mute button is really sensitive and comes on when you press the button next to it and dose not press down correctly.  Waiting blue aran to get back to me 

apart from that Im well happy


Posted By: MarjanM
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 12:11am
Originally posted by chickenfizz chickenfizz wrote:

Originally posted by MarjanM MarjanM wrote:

I have two.
One about 4 years old and one half a yer old.

I have put some plastic insulation between the chase (bottom) and the PCB as soon as i get the units and have no problems at all.

My theory is that because the unit gets fairly hot during use, after some period of use the bottom of the chase gets a little curved towards the inside (closer to the pcb) and start gently touching the pcb. That is the source of the "egg noise".

I have discovered this on a friend unit that started to make that noise, and when you hit the unit it created a "kick sound" on the speakers.

A very easy fix that should hot steer you away from this unit. I find if extremely good value for the money.

Regards


This is interesting (and certainly not a bad idea) though the egg problem is usually associated with the ribbon cables and mine tend not to run hot either. Could it be that when you dissasembled the unit to install the plastic you re-made a bad connection better?


No i just slide the plastic piece under the pcb :-)


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Posted By: shagnasty
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 1:38am
I've got 15, none F*cked up so far... I killed one with a stuffed genny outputing 330V and my local TV shop charged £28 to mend the PSU... These are not XTA let alone FDS-366ts but they cost less than a decent curry.. Whatthehell do U expect!
 
PS all mine are newer ones!


Posted By: djstefanos
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 1:42am
The ultra curve gives me the same problem. No output some times!!


Posted By: adambomb
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 8:54am
hmmmm... last night that poll looked sensible... now it looks like someone has had a good bash at the last 2 option Confused

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Posted By: norty303
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 9:12am
Yeah, think we might need to reset and limit to one vote per person. Shame.......   Unhappy

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Posted By: Bespoke
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 9:15am
kids

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Posted By: wafflesomd
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 9:25am
Can someone take a picture of the cable in question, and what the problem with it is exactly.

I've got one of these on the Christmas list (I'm still 20 and just starting to get somewhere :P).
I'd like to know so I can go ahead and give it a quick fix.


Posted By: Tony Wilkes
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 9:44am
Originally posted by Bespoke Bespoke wrote:

kids


Nah  "t**sers"

Edit,

Interesting , lets me get away with Phuk but dislikes Toss


Posted By: Robbo
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 10:42am
Norty---Is it possible for you to analise the votes on the last two sections as it definitely appears to have gone pear shaped with some stupid voting since yesterday or even re-start it with the one vote per member limit installed.


Posted By: boycey
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 10:53am
i have 2, bought a little over a year ago, had no probs whatsoever. very happy them

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Posted By: Strange Daze
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 10:54am
same.
No problems what so ever...(with mine)
 
Have seen them 'freeze' tho, when left in the damp. But thats not too bad really.....


Posted By: norty303
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 12:14pm

I'm trying to work out how we can do this where people can vote more than once but not have the problems we are.  I think maybe if I make 2 polls - 1 for positive responses, 1 for negative, so if you have had more than 1 Ultradrive and you've had both good and bad experiences then you can vote in both - but only once in each.  We'll then get an idea of the numbers of good ones and the range of problems with the bad ones (as I'll have 6 options for the bad ones to play with)

How does that sound?


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Posted By: Robbo
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 12:41pm
Just make it one poll but with the positive and negatives in two sperate sections and like you say, a max of one vote per member in each section---that should make it virtually idiot proof.


Posted By: norty303
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 12:44pm
Doesn't work like that i don't think Robbo.  I think its setup so that each poll is a distinct thread in its own right, with the option of having a discussion attached.

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Posted By: soundsystemdan
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 1:21pm
is it not possible to limit the votes, but to more than one? perhaps three? as I'm guessing most users will only have one or two units, so this will cover the majority.


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Posted By: kouack
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 1:33pm
I have one older version and a newer one and no problem so far.


Posted By: norty303
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 1:42pm
Quote is it not possible to limit the votes
 
Nope, either you get one vote, or many, but no specific number option.


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Posted By: Timebomb
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 1:59pm
Could ask everyone who votes to post up how many they have and whats happerned to them?  That way we could see if the poll tallys with tpeoples comments?

Ive got 2, one new one old and never really had any problems, i did have a frying egg sound once ages ago breefly but it went away, i think it may be due to putting them in a rack above a hot amp.


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Posted By: spiffing
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 2:05pm
I've got one and had no problems with it.

1 thing I have wondered about though, when the gains are changed the LED meters seem un affected is this normal?

Cheers, Chris


Posted By: Joe Grime
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 2:26pm
I have one that replaced my fried troublesome mk1 digidrive. No issues with the ultradrive or the ultracurve so far (12 months).
One vote from me


Posted By: DJkg
Date Posted: 03 December 2008 at 7:05pm
Had 1 unit that I sent out 4 times for the xover losing settings while DJing. They never figured out what happened. After the 4th time, I gave up. I am now using the Driverack PA, and even though it has less features as the ultradrive, i have never had any problems with my DRPA.


Posted By: huw
Date Posted: 04 December 2008 at 10:11pm
I have one.  It arrived with 2 faulty outputs.  Great quality control there....
Haven't got round to replacing it under warranty.  After reading this thread am quite tempted to have a play around inside with the ribbon connectors to see what happens....  


Posted By: Bespoke
Date Posted: 04 December 2008 at 10:35pm
''frying egg sound'' Whats this ???????? Whats happens ? can it be fixed ? my mine were made on the 12/8/08 so says the units Ermm

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Posted By: norty303
Date Posted: 04 December 2008 at 10:39pm
Think yours will be fine.  It seems as if the problem units were made quite a few years ago now

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Posted By: Bespoke
Date Posted: 04 December 2008 at 10:40pm
But what is it Norty ? what happens ?

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Posted By: norty303
Date Posted: 04 December 2008 at 10:42pm
If you imagine the sound of eggs frying, but coming from the outputs of the DCX, thats exactly what it is.  Often if you wiggle the cables in the back or tap the case you'll get a really loud pop.
 
Normally only affects some of the outputs


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Posted By: huw
Date Posted: 04 December 2008 at 10:46pm
Mine sounded like blasts of machine-gun fire to me
and the other output was white noise if I recall correctly....



Posted By: Bespoke
Date Posted: 04 December 2008 at 10:46pm
Disapproveummmmmmmmmmmm can you still hear when music is playing ? I started to hear a very slight fuzz the other day

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Posted By: huw
Date Posted: 04 December 2008 at 10:52pm
well on mine I only get the noise - no music signal whatsoever


Posted By: Wrighty
Date Posted: 05 December 2008 at 1:08am
I've got one old and one new - both fine, although they don't get a lot of use.

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Posted By: WmAx
Date Posted: 05 December 2008 at 8:40am
I have two units, one purchased around 2005 and on purchased in 2007. Both have never had a fault.

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Posted By: Fushion Julz
Date Posted: 09 December 2008 at 1:03pm
I have 2...one is a (very) early model and it suffered from a failure to boot on one occasion...Solved by reseating the ribbon cables and insulating the bottom of the case as a precaution.
The other is a later batch one and has suffered no issues whatsoever...

Fantastic bits of kit, great value for money, too, IMHO


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Posted By: adambomb
Date Posted: 09 December 2008 at 1:47pm
I have 2 units.. oneold, but not that old (about 2 years at a guess).. one new (last month)... no issues whatsover with either.
 
I have only ever used a DCX as my own crossover and have little experience with other brands etc.. but when I do come into contact with other stuff (Driverrack etc) I'm always shocked how inflexible they are compared to the DCX and also how awkward they are to use.. when the DCX is childs play in comparison.
 
Top marks from me..
 
Sound quality always seams to be good too..
 
Just wish the limiters went down another 3db or so... my only gripe.


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Posted By: toastyghost
Date Posted: 09 December 2008 at 2:06pm
Adambomb: Don't forget the familiarity factor when you deal with other bits of kit though. Those other interfaces will rub up against your expectation from what you're used to, and that will taint your experience somewhat.

I personally find the DCX interface to be good, but basic and not very well categorised, but I know that my regular usage of a DBX and it's clearly defined categories is a major factor in that. For someone who's coming into it with minimal experience or a wide breadth of experience (freelancing, for example) then I'd still wholeheartedly recommend the DCX even though it's not my cup of tea.


Posted By: adambomb
Date Posted: 09 December 2008 at 2:10pm
I agree, to some degree familiarity does play a part... but a 2 char high display as found on most other LMSs is a lot harder to use by far.. much less graphical representation of what's going on.
 
I also agree on the catagorisation of some areas is a little whack... but again, from my experience a whole sh*t load more intuative than the DRPA etc.


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Posted By: toastyghost
Date Posted: 09 December 2008 at 2:46pm
If your experience of a DBX is the DRPA then fair enough. The multi-line display on the 260 and up is a godsend though.


Posted By: JaKe
Date Posted: 09 December 2008 at 8:46pm
I have 3 DCX's, dated 2003,2007,and 2008, the newest one is slow to update the screen and am considering sending it back, I have had no trouble with the 2007, the 2003 was bought second hand for £75 (including a pair of XLR-phono XLR-XLR), this one was fryig a full english but a bit of plastic under the output board has sorted it out.
Also on the 2003 the plastic insulator in the ATA card slot was a little melted - looks like the regulators nearby have been running hot, I haven't checked this on the newer ones.
 


Posted By: Alex_C
Date Posted: 12 December 2008 at 6:01pm
I've got one of the newer ones and i've never had a prob with it... the software isn't great but i pretty much never use it so it's not really a prob


Posted By: owentec
Date Posted: 16 December 2008 at 1:42pm
I've owned 6, 4 old and 2 new.
 
3 of the 4 old ones worked fine. 4th was DOA... nothing on the screen, no signal would pass. Replaced under warranty.
 
The 2 new ones worked fine.
 
Owen


Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 18 December 2008 at 7:13pm
Ive never had any problems with mine, dont rate it or use it very much, but still never given me any problems

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Posted By: boycey
Date Posted: 19 December 2008 at 10:02am
i can vote again now?

edit: not anymore!


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Posted By: Kumruz
Date Posted: 23 December 2008 at 7:32pm
     MY berry is working fine but led meter on output engage 3db earlier than on the rest of them(incl limiter) even when they are set COMPLETELY  the same.
         Should i believe lights or numbers when setting berry????? 

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Posted By: dlyxover
Date Posted: 27 December 2008 at 5:05pm
I just got my second one (replacement for my first that had a bad button)

just powered it up an outs 1+2 are quietly frying eggs, the other outs are fine so far.

Can I resolve this myself or should i get another replacement?

I'm nearly ready to give up on the DCX and get a driverack, it took blue aran 1 month to sort this replacement

cheers


Posted By: breakdabeat pete
Date Posted: 03 January 2009 at 10:44pm
I have just ordered mine
i spent a extra 20 to get it from thomann and to get a 3 year warranty


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Posted By: Unknown Enemy
Date Posted: 03 January 2009 at 11:00pm
I just bought one on ebay for £150.
 
Works fine. No problems at all.


Posted By: antiG
Date Posted: 05 January 2009 at 9:58am
got a newer one, been running it most weekends for over a year, no probs at all

great versatile unit

saying that tho my mate had one that randomly put out 240V when he powered it up, frying one side of his infinite8


Posted By: dj infinite
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 11:13pm
i was thinking of upgradeing our crossover from a super-x-pro to a ultradrive-dro it seems alot of people have had problems. would you say upgradeing to a ultradrive is a bad move? are there any better alternatives in the same price range?


Posted By: SteveAATW
Date Posted: 12 January 2009 at 12:18am
I happily rack Ultradrives up next to XTA kit and to be honest on 80% of sound systems the limiting factor in sound quality is going to be your speakers, a lot of people will never be able to hear the difference between the XTA and the Berry.

Other than that Audiocore is the only advantage to the XTA, the software is superb. On the flipside the beauty of the berry is that the on screen display on the unit makes programming it from the front panel a dream, much easier than an XTA and I've never felt the need to hook it up to a PC. If you can understand the dbfs units and run it hot to get round the limiter issues the DCX is a sh*t hot piece of kit that for the money nothing else can touch. Strangely I've had more problems with my XTA kit than I have with my ultradrives too.


Posted By: johnny B
Date Posted: 12 January 2009 at 2:24am
yeah what is the crack with the dBfs units and how do they wquil to dBu


Posted By: pfly
Date Posted: 12 January 2009 at 12:47pm
One dBfs is just as big unit as dBu or dB, it has just a different reference point.


Posted By: Joe Average
Date Posted: 12 January 2009 at 6:45pm
I have two of these buggers, one has been fine although a bit noisy for my liking, the other went out after being tested from factory in one of my racks, just snuffed it, all LED's light on input A and no output whatsoever, also nothing on display although backlight. Got replacement about three months ago, this thread has reminded me to refit unit and test before use. Behringer agent informed me that Guarentee period is now three years so this may be of some use to people with dead units.
I must say that I find it difficult to believe that 240v could appear at the outputs but am obviously not in a position to despute it because I never witnessed such an event..


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Posted By: WhiteElephantSounds
Date Posted: 12 January 2009 at 6:49pm
Originally posted by Joe Average Joe Average wrote:

I must say that I find it difficult to believe that 240v could appear at the outputs but am obviously not in a position to despute it because I never witnessed such an event..


Who ever it was at void who repaired the inf8 said this definatly what happened, really should have sent it back to behringer to confirm.


Posted By: nineleaves
Date Posted: 12 January 2009 at 7:00pm
unfortunately behringer does seem to get bitten by issues probably relating to not properly field testing kit & resolving small issues then, before it goes out ino the wild.
and evidently their quality control over testing manifactured product for good working order needs to be better. however at the price.. well !

i use certain bits of their kit & dont usually have any problems; also have one of their old 3216 digital mixing desks which serves as a one stop solution for live sound when not using bigger kit & as a does everything backup. both the mixer and the crossover have worked flawlessly here without crashing once; can get a great mix on the lot for the money too ;) ..still prefer analog where possible tho ;) :)

the frying eggs problem; encountered that with one early dcx, transpired to be as noted by others a faulty crimped ribbon cable connector. they probably werent crimping them down properly - or the connectors they bought in werent upto the task. i resolve the intermittent connections with these by whipping the crimp cover off and soldering each wire directly to each terminal to make a PROPER connection ;) ..works a treat if you are soldering iron inclined.


Posted By: Joe Average
Date Posted: 12 January 2009 at 7:10pm

Fair enough, just seemed odd that mains has travelled from psu side to output, without any fuses popping or warning/alarm bells ringing.

Personally, I would have posted the unit up Behringer's Rusty Sherrif's if I found out that Line voltage was present at the outputs and some of my other valuable kit was affected, irrespective of unit cost.



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Posted By: nineleaves
Date Posted: 12 January 2009 at 7:18pm
hmm.. something went catastraphucally wrong in assembly/handling if it was actually possible for mains to find its way to the outputs ..that simply shouldnt be possible ;)
if it was a live short to case, earth cable should of been connected and rcd would of caught that.


Posted By: MikeHunt79
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 3:38am
I got an early edition egg fryer... I need to get around  to fixing it.

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Posted By: sheffield-junglist
Date Posted: 22 February 2009 at 11:22pm
don't actually owned one but have leant one off Mr Folkes a few times and we didn't have any trouble.

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Posted By: MikeHunt79
Date Posted: 22 February 2009 at 11:54pm
Managed to score another faulty one off ebay today for £40!

I may be able to make 1 good on out of the 2. :D


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Posted By: tommysb
Date Posted: 31 March 2009 at 9:14pm
I've been working with the samplerate converters that these use, and they're a real PITA. Anyone had problems of noise on the output after the source signal is removed?


Posted By: fuzzylogic
Date Posted: 31 March 2009 at 10:32pm
I have just recieved mine and have the same problem ,
can't fry an egg or anything else on it...just doesn't seem to get hot enough...melts the butter ok though...then nothing.


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Posted By: nineleaves
Date Posted: 01 April 2009 at 4:58pm
a little something posted elswhere, but relavent here - it turns out the led meters on the dcx2496 are indeed 'rms':


aprox -30db of pink noise with a 12db crest factor (aprox -18db peak):




-30db rms shows up on dcx 2496 as an 'rms' value :)
not peak !


however, this old matrix 2u600 shows the drive level as (-18db) peak:



Posted By: Wrighty
Date Posted: 01 April 2009 at 5:06pm
Before drawing any conclusions from those photos and description, I'd have to ask:

1. What operating level is the DCX set to? +12dBu or +22dBu?
2. What is the input sensitivity of the Matrix amp?


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Posted By: nineleaves
Date Posted: 01 April 2009 at 5:24pm
you can follow the tracking behaviour up and down the scale between the two digi units connected in analog mode.

the dcx is fixed to +22dbu max.
http://www.behringerdownload.de/DCX2496/DCX2496_SPECS_Rev_C.pdf - http://www.behringerdownload.de/DCX2496/DCX2496_SPECS_Rev_C.pdf

the original issue, was that they did not clearly state weather metering on the unit was done by peak or 'rms' average signal level values. it would seem to at least be a close analogy to the latter.

the meters on the matrix amp go abit crazy with the peak tracking & shift to being at 0db at -8db peak signal input & it just manages to evade the clip light (with no load) at -5db peak.
however its meters are ancient & andys always noted that those meters can be a little off sometimes.
itll be a fairly standard value for the matrix senstivity, andy will know this ..its not written on the amp anywhere.




Posted By: radioman
Date Posted: 23 May 2009 at 4:26am
had an ultradrive for 3 years now and so far so good! going in an install this summer and occasional outdoor use. hope it works well!


Posted By: DJRINSEOUT
Date Posted: 24 May 2009 at 4:19pm
i bought an alto insted after mine broke and had no problems


Posted By: Saul
Date Posted: 12 June 2009 at 5:23pm
errr just received an ultradrive that i'm setting up for a friend. Unpacked it, connected it up, turned it on and Nothing. Screen lights up, but it's blank. 

any ideas?
 


Posted By: Joe Average
Date Posted: 12 June 2009 at 5:27pm
Return the bugger, I had one do the same, could have cost me the whole left side if I hadn't been able to repatch very quickly. First timeout for the thing as well. Behringer returns policy is very good though.

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Posted By: Saul
Date Posted: 12 June 2009 at 5:29pm
f**k sake !!!! Angry

We need it on wednesday too! I've never liked the blummin' things......


Posted By: toastyghost
Date Posted: 12 June 2009 at 5:30pm
Before you do send it back, plug it in to a PC and try to do the firmware update procedure.


Posted By: Joe Average
Date Posted: 12 June 2009 at 5:32pm
I have one I can lend you untill you get yours sorted, you just have to come and get it or cover the postage and insurance. Brand new, was just about to go into a rack but it can wait. 
In Essex CO15 postcode.


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Posted By: Saul
Date Posted: 12 June 2009 at 5:32pm
i was thinking it could be the screen contrast, because i turned on a DBX before, and scared myself cos nothing appeared. turns out it was the contrast was down low.... 



Posted By: Saul
Date Posted: 12 June 2009 at 5:33pm
Originally posted by Joe Average Joe Average wrote:

I have one I can lend you untill you get yours sorted, you just have to come and get it or cover the postage and insurance. Brand new, was just about to go into a rack but it can wait. 
In Essex CO15 postcode.

thanks very much for your offer Smile

I'll try connecting it to a PC first and see what happens..... 


Posted By: Joe Average
Date Posted: 12 June 2009 at 5:34pm
Doubtful with the berry but I don't suppose it would be impossible.

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Posted By: Jake_Fielder
Date Posted: 17 June 2009 at 12:39am
is it for mustard on wednesday saul?
 
im going away for a few days, otherwisse i could lend u mine, im leaving at 5am  tommorow tho


Posted By: Saul
Date Posted: 17 June 2009 at 12:46am
it's ok cheers mate, just got a new one today and all seems in order. They give off quite a bit of noise tho. Never liked the things. Going into an install at the end of summer. 


Posted By: Joe Average
Date Posted: 17 June 2009 at 8:45am
When you say noisy, do you mean mains hum of white noise ?
Just interested to know because I had a bit of hum on one rack but not the other ( 1 Ultradrive per rack ), Spent a few hours rewiring the bugger and its exactly the same, got new Ultradrive for noisy rack and all is well. Put noisy one in good rack, no noise. Racks are identical, even the flight-cases, earthed in exactly the same points, all leads 100% checked and identical, so similar in fact that I had to number them so I knew which was which.
Although the problem is now solved, it's still annoying the hell out of me to find out what caused it.


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Posted By: 7venthson
Date Posted: 06 August 2009 at 1:11am
hmm this thread makes me wonder if i should get one now lol... i have had lots of there gear in the past and still do use some now and i have to admit i have had some of the strangest things happen with the stuff. my board currently is a mx-3282a 32 8 buss ( clearence from guitar center many years ago bought 2 ) and the right channel main will drop out and i have to over drive a channel and it pops in.. have had the thing apart 3 times now same with the other.lol what ever  time for a serious up grade.. for now im oldschool using a dbx xover and thout of buying a dcx.. hmm might still chance it and get one

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Posted By: Wrighty
Date Posted: 06 August 2009 at 1:49am
Does the MX3282 have insert jacks on the main L/R mix? If so, I'd put money on the normalising contacts being dirty, so the send signal isn't being properly connected back to the return, when there's nothing plugged into that insert point.

I've come across this exact problem on Soundcraft Spirit Folio, Spirit Live and Spirit LX7 desks. The excess signal seems to burn through the dirt and make a good contact temporarily.

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Posted By: jonny4288
Date Posted: 06 August 2009 at 11:19pm
had a problem with mine since new, i can power the unit on fine the display backlight comes on but no text is displayed on the screen... however the unit is fully functional. If i leave the unit on for a length of time the display magically starts working. if i turn the unit off then on again it works fine... seems to be an issue with cold starts or if the power has been off for a certain length of time.
 
strange... not really that fussed with the issue though.


Posted By: WCA-UK
Date Posted: 10 October 2009 at 10:50am
i had a few... new batch... 2 out of 6 had leaky caps with horrible hum not happy with it!!!
now all sitting on my shelf of deathDead replaced by DBX not worth the hastle and money =/ also dropped my trade account with them from multiple sendbacks of faulty equipment... smelly burnt electric wofts and covers you could cook a full english breakfast on!


Posted By: tallmike
Date Posted: 13 October 2009 at 8:35pm
did u run your FK1 and Longbows off them?!!


Posted By: backlash
Date Posted: 13 October 2009 at 8:38pm
hopefully...

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Posted By: WCA-UK
Date Posted: 14 October 2009 at 9:57am
LOL

if you must know... it was for a small old Shermann rig arround 16k for raves on MOD land / forestry and commons and random parties... you know.... the type of gear you couldnt care a sh*t about if it gets wrecked or conviscated or wet! =D


Posted By: numtie
Date Posted: 30 October 2009 at 9:20pm
Mine just developed the frying eggs today ahhh so thats what it sounds like took it apart and removed the pcd with the inputs and outputs oddly it has been sprayed in a half harted way under them so have insulated the underneath rescrewd and all is good with the world

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Posted By: backlash
Date Posted: 30 October 2009 at 10:07pm
i have yet to hear this magical sound.... hopefully mine being a v2 will not sizzle itself!

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Posted By: jonminns
Date Posted: 31 October 2009 at 2:09am
I've had no issues apart from the one i've just bought for 60 quid, i knew it may be iffy
 
Works fine but sometimes the screen goes blank and A and 1 VU meters light up full like when it boots up, but stay on and it doesn't work. Hitting sorts the issue out
 
Any ideas what this is or should i just be looking for a dry joint?

Cheers
 
Jon


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Posted By: tomschute
Date Posted: 23 November 2009 at 8:16pm
Originally posted by jonminns jonminns wrote:

 
Works fine but sometimes the screen goes blank and A and 1 VU meters light up full like when it boots up, but stay on and it doesn't work. Hitting sorts the issue out
 
Any ideas what this is or should i just be looking for a dry joint?

Cheers
 
Jon


Just got mine from whybuynew.com and although not put a signal through it, it has done this when I switch it on one time - kinda froze on booting. As you tried -  hit it and all seemed well.

Gigs fast approaching so not sure weather to send it back Confused


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Posted By: backlash
Date Posted: 23 November 2009 at 8:28pm
now you mention it.. our berry is hard to control.... we get maybe one green light on our OPut channels, even if we have 3 or 4 greens on Iput A and B. So therefore when setting limiter we have to be so precise and there isn't much play. it this something we are doing wrong? or could it be a fault of the DCX? I have a V2 edition.

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