Behringer HB01

If you are old school may take 5 minutes to get the tweaks down. But this pedal has all the mods that people have been doing and wanting on wahs for years.

I run J&H overdrive/distortion into Boss DD-3 then this wah. I was surprized by the tone I just returned a cry baby it sucked all the life and character out off my Fender Deville 2x12. Pick this up for 18 buck's. For the price you can not go wrong.

have only hade for a few day's This is not built like a tank the housing is plastic. The base plate is metal. If you drop this of a stage of back of truck you can just pick up a new one for 30 bucks.

Have not used yet.

For the the price and functions this pedal is a winner. Many time you get what you pay for and some times you get bent over for the big name brands. This is a good pedal for a good price.

Pretty straight forward usage. I kinda like the fact that the boost button is horizontal, less room for a slip up. The sweep range is misiscule and is unacceptable. Follow the mod that Flup posted by removing the rubber stops, and cutting the optical hole bigger to increase the sweep range.

When I first plugged it in I found the sound kind of thin, but with a little tweaking its okay ... of course it all depends on your setup. I'm using a cheap Zoom 707 fx pedal with overdrive into the wah, which goes into my old Harmony 415 combo amp. This is a blues amp with too much tone and needs low end EQ to grow balls. The wah is sweeping through the upper mids alright but trying to do a slow wah like in "civil war" or "no quarter" won't work until you apply the mod.

Pretty heavy and solid pedal despite the plastic. When I can afford to throw pedals against brick walls for fun I'll let you know.

dunno, i havn't had any problems with my Behringer stuff yet.

It's a Behringer so it's alot of bang for the buck and with some modifications its almost as good as a Dunlop.

It is easy to use, 3 knobs, 2 for low and high freq limit and one for the boost. you have a boost switch too.

I tried Morley and Dunlop and decided to by Behringer because of same quality but 6 times lower price. The sound is absoltely the same like other two, no noise or hum or something else, freq range is nice and even you can set it.

no problem until now

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This is good wah wah and price is correct. I play rock and jazz for 40 years and it works very well with my messa boogie.

It is very easy to use the effect and has been already described by another people. I can say that you can set much more than by effect of other competitors.

The sound quality is the same in comparison with other expensive competitors because of the almost same parts and features used in the hardware.

The reliability can be defined after certain time of use and this is not the topic yet

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I'm playing guitar over 20 years everything from rock to jazz and I???m electronic engineer by profession. If you look inside of expensive effects you will see that the price of all parts used is about 10 USD. Most competitors improve only small part of hardware with minimal cost (few USD) and sell it than for more than 100USD, especially the names like Vai, Satriani and other dudes were used to support this praxis. And it works because there are still many players which would buy rather the name than the thing itself. Fortunately there is the Behringer wah to buy otherwise I???m going to make one by myself...

excellent ease of use. i just leave all the knobs except freq on full, and adjust the freq to wat i need depending on wat im playing. the rocker resistor adjustment screw i found to be near useless, the resistance doesnt seem to change. the manual was pretty helpful except the bypass jack, i still dont understand it.

i use this pedal for slow sweeps wen playing dream theater and stuff, and all out wah for metallica. works well with anything. the only thing i wanted to change was sweep range and amount of movement. u can improve both of these by the following:
1. remove the rubber stoppers on the front and back of the pedal. this gives u all the rocking movement u need.u can put tape on that part to stop it hitting the base.

2. take the pedal off the base. u will find a vertical piece of plastic with two holes in it. the sqarish 1 controls wen the effect turns on and off. making this bigger will extend the amount of movement in which the effect is engaged. u can fix any mistakes with some opaque tape.

3. the triangle hole is to control wen the wah sound actually starts affecting the signals, and the shape of the sound. u can adjust this to suit personal preference. again, fix mistakes with tape.

might need a few attempts to get right but the end result is worth it... a near- perfect wah pedal.

i think i can depend on this pedal, although i havent had it for very long. plastic seems pretty heavy duty. i would use it on a backup.

never had to contact them.

i play dream theater, metallica, and my own stuff. ive been playing for a few years, and also have a behringer overdrive/distortion, behringer equalizer, behringer phaser, and behringer multi FX. im sick of people writing bad reviews about behringer because of their price, they just know musicians dont want to hav to pay $150 for simple distortion. i would definitely get another 1 if it were stolen, its a great pedal. the best thing is the freq range control, set it low for bottom sweeps and right up for solos.

I found that this product was very easy to use. Once you have adjusted the 'range' knob to the correct setting, I just turned everything else up to the top. The manual was simple but explained everything that I needed to know. The battery compartment is easy to access.

My setup is as follows:

OLP Benji Madden with Dimarzio Breed>>HB01>>Danelectro Grilled Cheese>>Behringer Tuner>>Marshall VS65r

The sound of this pedal is very good. It is not quite as good as the Cry Baby, but it is a quarter of the price! I have not detected any noise, and the bypass works fine. The range control works fine as well - in my other band, I use it for bass, and it sounds great!

I have noticed the spring squeaking sometimes, but it does not come through the amp, and when I am playing, you cannot hear it over the amp, so it is not a problem.

This is the only wah that I gig with - so I think is is reliable. Although the casing is plastic, is is tough, and the other guitarist in my band once jumped off the bass drum and landed on it. The pedal was fine - the only thing that broke was my lead! I have been using it for about eight or nine months now, and I have never had a problem with it.

Never had a problem, so I have never dealt with them.

I play in two different bands, playing all kinds of music, from funk to pop to metal, and this pedal fits in with everything. If it was stolen, I would definitely buy this again - what would be the point of spending four times as much on the Dunlop?

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READ IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE SWEEP RANGE OF YOUR HELLBABE.

first sorry for my english

mine has a very little sweep range, so little it just seem the pedal goes on and off, i couldn't play with this. i was quite upset, it was unusable, unless you get veeeeery precise with your feet, which gets boring quickly.

first i removed the two rubber feel at the front of the rocker, so that the pedal bends higher. the sweep goes higher now and the pedal range is improved. i'll add some tape to avoid the noise of the colliding plastic but this is a great improvement to the pedal, and anyone can do it with no warranty problem.

then i opened my hellbabe to check what was inside it. i've found there was a big design problem. the optical sensor just wasn't getting any signal until (more than) halfway through the complete range of the pedal.

there's some small plastic piece inside which hides the red light from the led so that it doesn't reach the optical sensor controlling the sweep frequency. when you press the pedal, a hole in the plastic, shaped as a triangle, allows the red light to progressively reach the sensor.

this triangle isn't just long enough. as i thought my unit was unusable i thought damn let's try it i got nothing to loose.

WARNING !! DOING THE FOLLOWING WILL END YOUR WARRANTY !!

so i cutted the triangle to make it longer. my cut wasn't very clean so i added some opaque scotch tape to adjust my shot. after a few try (take your time and do things progressively) and a special adjustement for my taste (i gave it an exponential curve with some tape), i was thrilled to play my "new" hellbabe.

now the sweep goes on as soon as you put your feet on the pedal. i can make slowly progressive sweeps which were absolutely impossible without this modification.

i'm really happy with this pedal now, it's very versatile and from what i remember from a cry baby i used to own, i now prefer my hellbabe

enjoy

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my first one was dead on arrival. got it replaced

Very easy to use, lots of options and tweaks that will enable you to get a satisfactory sound. Manual quite basic but everything explained.

Not too bad if you are just starting out or can't afford a Jim Dunlop or Vox. I found the actual frequency effect range a little limited but for the price (NZ$69.50) what more could you ask for?

This is an entry-level pedal which means it will get you going but you will probably want to move on to a Dunlop or Vox if you become serious with your music.

Quite acceptable for the low price.

I only had it for a week as it was an unwanted birthday gift...so I am unsure.

I wanted a Jim Dunlop but got this. I used to own a Cry baby but it got stolen after I passed out at a party one night.

I kind of always wanted to get another Jim Dunlop but ended up with this as a birthday gift instead. Boo Hoo. Interesting to check out though.

I ended up selling it for NZ$70 so I guess I made 50 cents on the deal! GREAT DEAL!

Not needed within 1 week of owning it.

Pretty good for the price but I think it is best suited to bedroom guitarists, newbies or poor folks.

You pay for what you get and this is neither fabulous nor crap.

It seemed easy on batteries so that's a good thing right?

It's a standard effect that will get you through but before long you'll be reaching for your mom or dads credit card so you can get the real deal.

Cheap and reasonable is what it is.

Controls are straight forward but I don't like the trim pot for the bypass timing, Behringer should have made a small black pot like the others.....
Boost switch has to be pushed horizontaly, huh????

The wah sound is great, very vocal and unique. I directly compared this wah with a "Dunlop Jimi Hendrix", Hellbabe is more vocal!
There is a "click" when the effect is engaged but how many times do you engage the wah without playing any notes??? (who me,never)
The range of this peddle is fine when compared to the the Hendrix,
in spite of that guy who bases his whole review on how short the range is (he said 1/2 inch..doh)I hope he isn't a carpenter LOL!!!
One of the coolest features is that the peddle engages on the up swing and not at the top (toe down) I personally like that.
The range control is very cool and dead easy to set and tweak.
The wah Sound can be bright or mellow, any way you want it....

Everything works fine!!!
Seems to be built strong.
I have lots of Behringer gear new and used, all works fine.
For the money you CAN NOT BEAT THEM!!!

Never dealt with them...

Makes me laugh when people write bad reviews all emotional from not knowing the products properly.
EHEM, you can take the spring out if you want it to stay in one place.
EHEM, you can use a bypass switch it has a jack.
EHEM, you can tweak every feature you would need to tweak.
Looks and sounds great for $55 Canucks (you want gold or somethin?)
Try to be more neutral and learn how to spell and READ axe monkeys!!!

for a wah.. just because you should just stand on it but you shouldnt have so many knobs on a wah...does it turn it's self off mine didnt. it's a piece of crap.
i read that people didnt like the boost it's a bit crapy on my ac30 but on my ampeg it is an amazing boost an i have many overdrives..

.. i have not had so much fun with a pedal in my life.if you read the above crap bit.i have lots of wahs when they wernt avail to me i got a 20 buck cheepo to do a project on the pc for a friend. to make adjustments with an optical wah all you do is move the led closer or further from the diode since this has 2 hey this is cool i thought my morley was good for an optical but play with it you will not be disapointed yea that spring has a cool creak to it but it dosent get picked up in recordings i miked it up cause i had a million tracks that sqeeky sound rocks..i just bought another morley for 10 bucks and im buying another of these crossing them and since its got an inductor aswell making a 3 way wah with a pot an old board. im still laughing

if i bought it as my main wah on stage out of the packet..'not in my life'..but that base plate can kill any drummer. if youve taken it off
before. could be my main wah with the improvements i have in mind it's like the ibanez tank series great qulity at low price and too modify a dream i.e the "ts5" get one of these mdify with a few resistors and you save 150 bucks all that is top plastic is'nt crap..does it turn itself off....?

behriger............i knew the rep in europe , there pedals are crap
mostly cause of elec current you get a slight buzz at u.s current using d.c that shouldnt matter i.e use one of their d.i as a hot plate he told me this a lot of their gear you can change .. the proccsors sound like
crap great mixing desks but why would you want custommer support on a 20 buck wah.. try an buy the parts to fix your morley for 20 bucks.. hey does this turn off. yea they are great call them up just to see how they are doing..

i played pro for 25 yrs , i try not to play anymore cause i hate to but its just an addiction,got 3 fire birds,strats with hums,90's 180's,well 9 of them ,tele,hofner troberdour"what"6 gordon smiths, 3 blundells,58 335,amps 62 ac30, 69 ac30, apeg v40,marshall marshall vol 76 50 watt& 79 100watt, marshall major 70..rack gear too much i really like my alesis midiverb2 which i use instead of a reverb tank in the ampeg,i cant live without the chamelions ..peadals..im not going there put it this way i use 3 a/b swithches.. useuall set up is is ac30's in stereo and i kick in the solo chanel with the ampeg at about 30db boost the ampeg is one of a kind i swear i have nver heard such a fast response from an amp, any time i kick i look at it..use a foxx wah live an a jen..ian