Re: guide to programming the fcb1010 for echoplex?

[Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com>]

wow,wow,wow stay away from the liquid fooot guys,it looks awesome but is very expensive,ackward and painful to program and horrible support,believe me i went throught it and could not get the virtual comands of the EDP to work,very flaky MIDI as well and is more geared to simple use with the AXE FX
when i went back to the cheap behringer FCB1010 i felt so relieved that i actually apreciate it more now;-)
id rather buy 4 FCB1010s than that thing!
cheers
Luis

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:40 PM, William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com> wrote:

Ok here is my programming guide for the FCB1010.
 1 unwrap your Behringer pedal
2  get a good hot fire going
3 find a big  metal pot of sufficient size to fit the behringer in
4 drop behringer FCB1010 in to metal pot, place on raging fire and begin to stir, being sure to wear a good filter mask to avoid any toxic outgassing
5 cheerfully begin to stir the pot until the FCB1010 is melted down to its essential elements
6 bite the bullet and purchase a good quality midi foot controller like the Gordius Little giant, Voodoo laps ground control or liquid foot, and rejoice in the knowledge that if you ever experience a break down you can and will be able to obtain parts to fix it.

 over the period of 6 -7 years I went through threee behringer FCB1010's before I finally realized that my controller was of equal importance to any other piece of gear in my chain so I made the switch to the little giant about three years ago and other than having an issue with the LCD beginning to fail (Xavier told me his initial batch of LCDs had some dimming issues,I'm getting it fixed as soon as there is a lull in my work schedule.), it has performed flawlessly.  The last time I tried to reach Behringer about replacing parts they where kind enough to send me a list of all of the parts, but do not carry any replacement parts. Fat lot of good that did me. Thanks Behringer,. What this means is the FCB1010 is no different than any other disposable technology these days, like a cell phone, if it breaks you have to buy a new one.  With all of the attention paid to recycling and reusing, the behringer stuff is throw away.  I wont buy another behringer product because of this, and the fact they are the reverse engineering Kings, regularly plundering and pillaging other peoples designs.
 Bill