Behringer HB01

It's plug and play.

It sounds fine, you just need to mess with it a little bit. And learn how to run this pedal.

I have never had a problem with it, and the battery last a long time. And it is plastic, ABS plastic, which is on your car. Which means, it's not gonna break anytime soon.

Never had a problem.

Christian rock, classic rock, etc...

Lots of Features.. but its been described here too many times!

Really like the big nob!

Here is were we can discuss some things!

First i bought mine used.. 15eur, something like 20 bucks!

First i did the triangle thing mod, enlarged the damn thing and put electrical tape to shape it better, now we have a better tracking

Second i messed with the bypass led and fotoresistor, now as soon as the pedal moves the wah is activated

Third i removed the rubber thing at the end of the footplate and at the bottom.

RESULT:

Nothing like it comes from the box, now i have full tracking of the wah.. and a sweet sweet mee-oow..

It reminds me of a bad horsie.. loving it!

For a 20 buck wah.. its the biggest bargain everyone could get!

Its pretty sturdy..

But then again for 20$ you couldnt get any better!

Get one of these, mod it like i did.. and keep an open mind!

Dont bash it right away just cause its cheap and its a Behringer pedal!

Ok?

Pretty simple. Other than the big knob, the controls don't really do much. Turn them up or down, and it really doesn't make a difference. The boost is easy to "kick" on, but, again, doesn't really add much. The small knobs on the side (boost control, Q control, and fine tune) are close to impossible to grab and turn, and even if you manage that, it's hard to see where they are set; not that it really matters. Really poor design on the little controls.

I don't like the delay after you release the pedal before you get your normal sound back. Kind of defeats the purpose of "engaging/disengaging" an effect, no?

The sound is actually not bad for the price. It's not a crybaby or a weeping demon, but does have a nice, crisp sound with little noise (though it does fuzz up when I use it with my digitech multi-effects processor--but only on certain settings--I fault the digitech pedal more than this thing, because without certain digital sounds kicked in, this thing is clear as a bell.

I've seen a lot of people complaining about the sweep range and how the pedal just jumps from one frequency to another with little "climb/descent" in between. My guess is they have no clue how to use a wah pedal. That's like crashing your car and saying the steering wheel doesn't work well. It's fine. Just requires some touch.

I like the range of different sweeps from the big knob. It's supposed to be for setting it to lower frequencies for basses and such, but let's be honest, this is a Dunlop Q ripoff and the big knob changes the actual effect of the sweep, from dark and muddy to creamy and "wowpy" to bright and stinging.

Fpr 30 bucks... not bad at all.

Kinda junk. I broke the poorly designed "time setting" the first day I had it. It's a useless feature. It sets the amount of time after your foot leaves the pedal until the wah effect is disengaged. I'm thinking if you want the effect to last a few more seconds, you'd just leave your foot on the darn thing, but I suppose some brilliant "engineer" in Germany who makes too much money felt it was a good idea to have the effect resonate on your gitar sound after you've stopped using the pedal. I say let's fix his car so that it stays running for an extra 2 minutes after he parks it in the garage. Makes about as much sense.

So there's a small screw or something on the bottom (inside the metal plate) that requires a screwdriver too small to even be practical in order to adjust the time setting. It's very cheap, and you have no idea when you've reached the limit, like mine, so I just kept turning and it snapped off. Whatever.

It's flimsy and seems like it would easily break after lugging it around too much. Anyone who says they gig with it is either lying, or plays at their nephew's graduation party with 3 of his drunk loser friends and considers that a gig. This thing is not road worthy and will most definitely break after prolonged use.

I just got it to hold me over until I get a new crybaby. Then the only show this toy will will ever see is when I throw it up in the air and show it my aluminum baseball bat.

It's cheap for a reason. Don't listen to the hype about "well it's good plastic"... NO IT'S NOT! That's why it costs 30$ and not $140 like a crybaby. I hate to burst people's bubbles, but sometimes, you actually do get what you pay for.

I don't plan on ever calling them as it's more trouble to sit on the phone waiting to speak with someone you can barely understand because of a 30$ pedal than it is to just go out and buy a new one.

I play a lot of blues, rock, psychedelic, and creepy stuff. I'm not gonna snob out like a lot of people and use this review as a platform to brag about my gear and all the neat stuff I have while typing in music nerd language so that I appear smarter than I am by being incomprehensible, so I'll keep it simple: I play a Les Paul through a Marshall solid state with a muff, phaser, Guv'nor and a few other odds and ends in the loop. I like to mix up effects. This works well with all the pedals and in the amp except for the specific settings on my effects processor. It's decent for the short time I've played around with it so far.

I've found that I only like 2 settings on there: if the big knob was numbered from 1-5 with each click of a setting, 1 being the lowest, bassy pitch and 5 being the highest, sprakly pitch, I like 3 and 4. 1 and 2 are too muddy and bassy and 5 is wayyy too bright for my tastes.

If it were stolen I'd probably laugh at the idiot who passed up on something better to steal and not replace it unless I had no other wah.

What I love: I like the optical effect of engaging simply by pressing on it, and I like the spring-back. Give a nice, tight, flexy feel to the stomp. I love the fact that it's not costly. I love the fact that it works well with other pedals for the most part.

I hate the lame delay after you release the pedal. I guess if you're in a band and the bass and other rhythm guitarist are playing after you disengage, it's not the end of the world, but... it's a useless feature and they ought to fire the guy who decided that it was a good idea. It defeats the whole concept of an optical pedal. I also hate the small knobs on the side. The don't do much, and you can turn them at anyway. Too small. Again, bad design.

I wish it had bigger knobs that actually did something besides give you a headache when trying to adjust them.

It's not really a bad pedal, just not that great. It's got its uses, but don't buy this thinking you've solved your need for a wah pedal. This is a good beginner toy or to hold you over until you can afford a "real" wah pedal, but that's it, and that's the truth.

I gave it a 7 due to the value, and I also rated the sound high for the same reason. But comparing this to a crybaby is like comparing a Ford Escort to a Porsche 911.

Pretty straighforward to use really. Just a Wah with a Boost cuircuit. Manual is good, explains all the necesay functions.
You can get some usefull sounds out of it stock, although I found the Wah range a bit too short. So I simply modded the pedal as explained below. I did not completely cut away the rubber stoppers, just shortened them (made them almost flush with the edge of pedal) and carefully enlarged the smallest triangle inside with an X-acto No.11 blade. This expands the ranged of the wha with about 30% Which was my goal.

But hey, for the price these are going for, the mod is just a small thing! I had a Vintage Shaller Wah-Fuzz (late 60ties) and it was a complete disaster...Meaning Whatever people say not all Vintage stuff is good. Sold the Shaller for about 7 times what I paid the HB-01! Seams a common practice to take a Dump on Behringer products, but hey, I don't see any other manufacturer doing the same. Ok, a Morley or Dunlop will sound perhaps better, but you pay about 5 times more for such a unit! And let's face it, we aint all Claptons or Hendrixes! Watch You tube for some demonstrations of the HB-01 and judge for yourself.

Sound quality is good for such a cheap priced unit! Although the mod I did made it even better. I found the unit not very noisy when using good quality Patch cables and the correct power adapter (I use an Ibanez one) Although when used with cheap patch cables and a cheap adapter is verry noisy, but so are even more expensive pedals!
I mostly use the HB-01 in front of a Dirt box, my favorite being the Zoom Ultra Fuzz UF-01 (a sadly no longer in production pedal) this gives me the sound(s) I want. From creamy Jimi, to 60ties garage and all in between. Sounds also good with a Behringer VD-1 (Although this is noisy box) and it sounds very bluesy with a simple Overdive or tube screamer.

I don't find the Boost very good, it's tweakable, but since it only runs when the wah is being used, the boost signal weakens when you push the wah back in the lower frequenties.

I mostly use a original "64 Fender Tremolux or for home use an old small Eko 10watts transistor amp and some upgraded MIJ Fender Jazzmasters. Hellbabe sounds good on both.
The High-Low knob is usefull when switching between brighter and less brighter guitars.Although the differences are subtle.

Well, it's a heavy plastic box with a heavy iron plate under it. So far I had no issues with it. I have used Danelectro mini pedals (also plastic ones) for over 40 gigs in the past few years and the housing of those never gave me any problems, so I don't expect any with the Hellbabe.
I never use backups and I never needed them!

Behringer seams to have a very decent customer suport. I heard the even have a waranty on their products on which they engage themselves to replace any broken product within waranty. Not bad I think.

I play a lot of styles from Instro 60ties to garage to post rock and a lot in between. Been playing for about 15 years now and used a lot of gear over these years. Played my part in various bands.
I bought a few used Behriger pedals, the Vintage Distortion, Vintage Phaser and The Hellbabe. I could't ressist them for the price and I'm impressed by their value for money. In a perfect world all stompboxes should be cheap, but they aren't. So to me Behringer is a welcome change.

Many others have already detailed the features here so I won't repeat. The manual (which I downloaded from Behringer's site) is not particularly useful but makes the functions of everything clear enough. Once the bypass timer is adjusted it's actually pretty usable no matter what settings anything else has. It's not the most aggressive or strongest wah effect around but it is good.

Most guitarists will probably only use the higher frequency settings but there is enough scope available in the rest of the settings for 7-stringers, baritone players, and bassists. More than enough volume boost on tap if you need it too.

Some people have complained about the length of travel of the pedal but, while not the longest on the market, I don't feel that it's too short.

Sound quality is excellent. The pedal has no problems with noise or interference, or tone suck, and once the bypass timer is set right, there is no obvious clicking or thumping when switching on or off.

The wah effect is not overly pronounced and, as mentioned elsewhere, could have a little more high frequency scope to it - meaning that it won't go into near ultrasonic shrieking as some wahs on the market do. As I said above, most people will still probably choose the highest frequency settings. Having said that, the lack of high end aggression gives the pedal a smooth, hi-fi sort of sound that I particularly like, and of course helps keeping the noise down, particularly with single coil pickups.

Sounds very good both clean and run before a distortion.

Build is very solid, internals are well constructed. I'm not anticipating any problems. Current draw is less than 10mA so battery life should be very good, probably 2 or 3 times longer than most over tuners for example, 3 to 4 times longer than most digital delays. Experience with other Behringer gear has me very confident in it's abilities to handle the four gigs a week that my one will be put through.

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I'm a pro musician (i.e. playing live is my only income) with 18 years experience playing rock, blues, folk, funk, soul and even a little country music from time to time. Even at two or three times the price, this would be a very good wah indeed. The value for money is astonishing.

As with any wah pedal, what sounds good is a subjective thing that each person has to decide for themselves. If you don't like it, fair enough, try something else instead. Those who do like this will love it, and they'll be laughing at the price too.

The Behringer Hellbabe is a decent wah. You can get nice sounds out of it on clean and when your soloing. Manual is decent, tells you which botton and knob is for.

The actully "Wah" sound that you get out of it is... not very good. It more of a "Wow" type sound then a "wah" sound. The OD channle on it does give it some boost but not much. The 6 diffrent effects that you can choose from are pretty decent but could be better.

It weighs about 3 1/2 pounds and its made out of plastic, but very hard plastic! I would trust it for now and how I use it but in a Live situation...I would deffinatly bring a back up or just upgrade to a Crybaby or some other wah

Havnt delt with them yet. I bought it about a month ago and nothing has happend yet.

I play Hard rock and Metal and it suits me for the time being. Been playing 2 years and I have a dean ml and epi sg

If it was lost or stolen I would probley buy a diffrent one since I would like to try a Crybaby out. Not that this one is total junk and I would never buy it again. Just like to try something diffrent.

easy to use but the sound quality is bad. very small controls which dont really make much of a difference to the sound.

dont buy this pedal! its rubbish! seriously you can get a second hand crybaby off ebay for not much more than you can buy one of these new. DO NOT BUY ONE!

got rid of it before it had a chance to break

got rid of it before it had a chance to break

like i said before...DO NOT BUY THIS PEDAL!!!

Easy to use, hard to get a good sound from it. I don't personally like the spring action, always gotta have your foot on the thing when in use.

Badly conceived and made from cheap components, guess what, IT'S A 30 DOLLAR PEDAL FOLKS!!

I would not depend on it for regular stage use.

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I modified mine and got lucky, sweep range and sound improved a lot, OK for messing with at home but that is about it.

PS. you don't need a schematic to do the mod! just a screwdriver and an exacto knife. (adult supervision needed...watch you don't cut yourself kids) perhaps a little electrical tape if you cut to much.

The adjustment knobs on the left side of this pedal are small and cannot be adjusted verye easily. The knob on the right side is easy to adjust becuase of its size. The manual that came with it is clear and the controls are simple as well.

I thought the wah effect was pretty weak, it has a huge volume swell between the up (but activated) and down foot positions. It sounds like it is just switching between 2 different frequencies. When the wah is turned on with out the boost it drastically cuts the volume, when the front of the pedal is high, with the front of the pedal depressed it is really loud. When the wah switches on it clicks really loudly. But as i said the main problem I had with it is the outright weakness of the wah.

It seems relatively sturdy

The place I bought it from said if it stops working in the next year i can bring it in with the recipt and they will give me a new one.

This pedal is not a bad deal for the low price, but i would recommend just getting a crybaby, because the wah effect is weak, the volume is inconsistant, and the pedal clicks loudly when the wah is first activated so it can't be played live and sound very good

You have possibility to set Q, Boost and Freq Range.

Don't buy this if you are professional musicians. Try the other competitor too and you will hear the difference. Without mods you can not use it. The pedal trevel is to small and there is no continous wah effect, in reality the effect change between two frequecies (bad opto concepte). There is noise when the effect is switch on. Inside you can find very low quality soldering (made in China).

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I asked for schematic to make the mods and did't get it.

Don't buy this because of low price (as I did). It only works with mods for professional use.