We live in strange times...Behringer 369

Behringer pretty much stopped advancement into utility gear and better live sound stuff. Drawmer moved onto crazy stuff and Aphex died. They killed off KT and Tannoy. SSL committed harakiri in slow motion and the decapitation never came. Luckily great digital took over but it's not analog and only really available on computers except for the handful of good Waves utilitarian plugs and the old Oxford stuff on Avid venue systems. The clones and emulations hold productions back. There's still cool new stuff of course but the big boys are competing with Behringer or selling to educational institutions.

This is in despite of for audio ICs and clocking getting much better. THAT Corp stuff is great and cheap but how do you sell a super advanced, all in one, analog engine based units to people who don't know how to use a compressor and want to use what Jimmy Page used for noisy 70s DI guitars and what CLA used to make distorted vocals that never jump out of the speaker in those late 90s and early 2000s productions? How do you sell stuff inspired by classic circuits but heavily cleaned up to not be ringing, resonant, distorted, muddy pieces of crap that had to be worked around? They don't even know why this stuff had nasty side effects because they worship it and old productions where the distortion was usually worked around. Then they buy clones and emulations that often defeat the functionality because the cloner has no idea how to use the piece either and why it is usable or sounded cool. Sometimes the original manufacturer is making clones or emulations that are self-defeating. Behringer was just the original cloner and muntzer but was cloning contemporary stuff.

Dan