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Behringer MIC100 - It will get you out of a bind.
BP from Rock Hill, SC USA
Quality
Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable?
Noisy tube notwithstanding, it seems to be decent. We'll know after more thrashing.
Features
What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could?
For $29.95, it is a bagain. I would move the level lights to reflect internal gain/overload instead of what is going down the pipe from the device.
Ease of Use
How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be?
Fairly easy to use. Good manual. However, I may have miss understood the manual, but I figured the digital VU meter was directly tied to the signal passing through the Gain control; it is not. The Output has the most notable effect on the meter. In other words, you can overload the dog out of the input, distort the heck out of it, and set the Output to where it barely lights the first indicator. It would make more sense to me that the meter would reflect the headroom inside of the box, and not the output.
Sound
How is its Tone?
It does nice things to the signal coming off of my SM57. Warms the tone and enhances the tone through the mains significantly. It makes my Frontman 25R that I use on smaller gigs sound wonderful. Not that the Frontman 25R doesn't sound nice to me to begin with. That amp is a sleeper!
Reliability
How has it stood up over time?
Don't know; have only used it twice. However, you do need to let the tube burn in for about an hour or so before the gig. Otherwise, it is quite noisy.
Overall
Your general opinion of this product.
Decent. I use it to feed my guitar mic into a board channel without a mic preamp when we do smaller gigs.