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Reviews
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Based on 6 Reviews
Surprisingly good
Ok - we all know the reputation Behringer have for being the dodgiest, cheapest alternative to every pedal brand going, but at times I do take issue with its bad reputation and the VM1 is one of those instances. As far as being a Memory Man clone goes, it's not half bad. Great tone from it, the chorus and vibrato are pretty solid and it's just a lovely clean delay. Amazing value for money,
A different sounding EHX Memory Man
VERY similar in sound to an EHX Memory Man. I was on the fence about purchasing one or to just go the distance and get the Memory Man until I came across an old thread on TheGearPage about a blind test to see if the community could identify the difference between the VM1 and the EHX MM. Nearly every community member who participated in the blind test thought the VM1 was actually the EHX MM.
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/ok-then-lets-play-which-one-is-the-memory-man-updated-with-answers-p-3.902858/
Blatant memoryman copy,
It's a clone of the deluxe memoryman, the pots feel a bit wonkey, but it's a good clone. The repeats are alot darker than on the memoryman though.(which I actually like better). I think it's horrible to copy designs, but atleast they've done a good job at it
a dark memory, man
I got this pedal for £35. It's cheap and it's a clone(or trying to be) of the EHX Memory Man. It has very dark repeats, almost too dark. Nevertheless it has some great features like chorus and vibrato as well. Only drawback in the cho/vib section is that you cannot change the rate of modulation. I have only played it through my Roland Cube Street yet. On the Fender Twin and JC-120 emulations, the delay sounds really good and really warm. But on the Vox Ac emulation, the repeats sound horrible and very noisy. I really enjoy experimenting with this pedal, and I am going to gig with it.
Basically a memory man ripoff
I use this effect on my vocals. I do not us the chorus though
Accidental genius
This is one of the cheap pedals I have come to adore. If you’re looking for a good knockoff of the old Memory Man? Probably not.
hahaha, great review
Very well. I was looking for something akin to an Arion SAD 1or 3. I still need one of those. I was looking for an analog delay that would do a decent amount of repeats while decaying. This one gets ugly fast when the feedback is beyond 12 (otherwise, not enough repeats for me). If the mix is up, even worse. I mostly play with the thing up on something so I can fiddle with the gigantic pots for the expressed purpose of getting self-modulating noise and messing with it. It’s really good at that. Joe Meek would’ve done a 45 of just this and some blonde Twinkie boy singing outta tune.
Also, I get a real nice tone outta setting the repeats somewhere around 2 - 3 1/2. On my Gretsch electromatic (doesn’t have the pluck-a-silly TV Jones pickups, we’re talking plain ole’ Gretsch mudbuckers here), bridge pickups, mix and feedback just short of noise freakout, I get this nutty sci fi vocal trail. It sounds like a processed human voice through a bad microphone and reminds me of the old Star Trek theme, which is good, since I do a sci fi themed project. Vibrato is running wide open, which only affects the trails (same goes for the “chorus”). The pedal is awesome, which means of course, it no longer shows up on the Behringer site, implying that it’s been discontinued. All good things.
I’ve seen shootout vids with the old memory man. Not the same beast. This is a cheap knockoff and if you’re trying to get that Electro-Harmonix sound in a 50 dollar box, just give it up. You’ll be pissed. But they can keep that thing. This one has its own distinct personality, which is what makes it great and a permenant addition to my collection. It does a decent slap back, but meh, that’s not hard.
Doesn’t use batteries, so you’re stuck with an AC adapter in some bizarre proprietary mA rating, which I’m guessing is difficult to replace. It’s not grounded, of course, so you might get a hum. I’m used to old pedals, some with fixed cables coming out of the box (the old, pre-Dunlop MXR flanger I had with bare spots and lots of electrical tape springs to mind) so it doesn’t bother me. It’s in a giant metal box and one of the biggest pedals I own. I’m so screwed for a pedal board, should I start really adding them blue LED let’s the user know if it’s on with two settings: dim blue and retina-scaring blue. Yeah, the damned thing is blinding. Fairly easy to control, with two switches on the back and five big pots any fumbling idiot could grasp. Might find a sound and tape them down though, as stuff goes from meh to Godzilla-shrieking in a tornado, real fast.
Like I said, I wanted something akin to a SAD series or maybe I had one of the old BOSS delays, who knows? This isn’t it. It’s the Vintage Time Machine and the only Behringer -anything- I’ve got in my rig. I was desperate when I got it and unearthed a real gem. But my treasure might be trash to you. Likewise, I have a collection old old. Trashy, long discontinued pedals that boutique companies charge out the nose now to replicate, poorly. Go watch the vids on it first.