BehringerUltracurve Pro DEQ2496 2-channel Equalizer and Mastering Processor

What a real good peice of gear to have in your PA rack forthe price. I paid more forack in 2017. For the most part guitarist, bassist, drummers, keys and vocalist have a sound we like. Getting that sound to sound good in every room is the goal. IMO it takes more than thea GOOD ear, standard EQ tweaks, a PA and the right overheads subs. Bands/musicians tend to over EQ there soundunintentionally and frequencies xlash and cancel each other out. The sound guy compensates with his mix, its like multiplying and dividing instead of adding and subtracting.Some rooms are bigger, some smaller, some have a stage, higher ceilings, some with sheet rock or acoustic tiling, theres wood panel walls or standard sheet rock. Though experience sound guys can get a decent sound not every band has a sound guy handy. Most bands these days manage there own sound. This is were the Ultracurve comes in. Dont be fooled by the low price. I thought I was pretty good at mixing my bands sound until I installed the DEQ2496 in my PA to help speed things up as well. When I mixed my first few rooms with it, I got that smile you get when you know it sounds real good. Thats all I expect now at every gig and so does everyone else.Get a good measuring mic! The Ultracurves Auto Eq analyzer use white noise frequencys to eq the room flat which is what you want to start with. The band brings there sound up and you tweak it from there if need be. The auto eq analyzer is one part, there's the compressor, expander limiter, parametric EQ, feedback destroyer, stereo imaging, dynamic compressor, time correction solutions everything you need to master your end sound.There is a learning curve but nothing that good is ever that simple at first. There's YouTube demo videos to help you, so watch, read and follow instructions and be patient. Practice a few setups in your home or studio. Once you learn how to use your DEQ2496 save those gig settings for the next time or use the settings for similar rooms. It's all worth it IMO if your serious about your bands sound. The DEQ2496 will give you an edge and get club owners to notice that you sound better than the other bands.Good Luck...

I received the same item two times neither of which worked. This vendors' products are defective and cannot be relied on. The same defect existed in each of the times I received this item. I do not recommend this brand or vendor to anyone.

Had this for a while now, testing and using mostly in an audiophile stereo setup. Was a bit skeptical from other reviews of this unit (heat issues and such). But Behringer hasn't upgraded it with a new version for nearly a decade now. For me, it seems to work amazingly well. I am using it in a full digital configuration from a computer to DAC to digital input on DEQ. Also input/interconnected with an ART DPS II valve mic preamp and other various components including Roland mulitrack recorder/mixer. Has a very small rack size which doesnt take up much space. Personally, i've had no issues with heat on mine, and it is even in a partially enclosed rack stacked with other components. Wonder if a hardware or firmware issue has been made with this unit since its introduction, or if there are manufacturing issues between units, as i dont wont to oppose anyone else's experience. I do not however use it in a heavy use for extended periods, but only for home use in a small "listening" room for music enjoyment and occasional recording (its not on the road in a heavy live gig function or such). My sound is output into a high-end t-amplifier to custom build tower speakers. The DEQ works well for analyzing/adjusting room acoustics. A measurement mic is a great addition to this unit.With all the built-in processors including 31 bands EQ per channel (graphic EQ) as well as parametric eq, compressor, expander, etc. you really cant beat the price!I also hear no distortion or noise floor introduced in the path (am using digital input, but have tried analog inputs with no noticable noise either).Layout use is a bit confusing at first, but you get used to it. Could use an upgrade on that as well as the display info graphics, but for the price i cant really find much to dispute with it.

Title says it all. I bought this to make some final tweaks to in-room response after doing as much as I could with tube traps and other room treatments. The DEQ2496 was complex and it took me a while to figure out all the right settings to make it work. But when it did, it worked perfectly. I bench tested it with test signals both pass-through and through parametric EQ, it introduced no harmonic or intermodulation distortion. That's No. Distortion. At. All. This is in pure digital mode between my source and DAC, so I'm not using the DEQ2496's on-board DAC.Some here say it runs hot, but mine does not even after hours of continuous operation. Perhaps that's because I'm using only optical in and out, bypassing its DA-AD converters, or maybe Behringer improved it.If you're an experienced audio geek, this box does exactly what it says and it does it well. But its complexity is not for the casual user or the faint of heart.More detail here.[...]