Behringer CS400 Compressor Sustainer Ultimate Dynamics Effects Pedal

What's not to love? Immediately after connecting the Behringer TO800 Vintage Tube Overdrive Pedal, my mind transported me back in time and gave me goose bumps! The pedal produced an extremely realistic vintage overdrive, complete with outstanding sustain. Okay, it doesn't say "BOSS" on the pedal, and didn't cost an arm and a leg. But, these caveats aren't necessary if you're looking for outstanding quality at an outstanding price! Excellent pedal if you miss the vintage sound of an authentic tube-driven overdriven effect. Way to go, Behringer!

I bought the Behringer NR300 Noise Reducer and the Behringer CS400 Compressor Sustainer at the same time. (My comments are identical for both pedals.) For me, this pedal does a great job at 1/4 the price of the popular competing brand. My official rating is 4.5. I'm docking 0.5 point for the difficulty in replacing the battery (details later in this review). By all means, check the other reviews for their impressions of this effects pedal. I'd like to address some things I haven't seen in other reviews. Based on my experience, you MUST power this pedal with a FRESH 9V battery. And remember, batteries don't last forever. As the battery reaches the end of its useful life, you will begin to hear unpleasant distortions. That's the time to put in a new battery, or switch to a 9V adapter. Beware, though, that sound may be degraded if you power the pedal with a garden variety 9V adapter. I tried a random adapter that was lying around, and I got the same gravely sound as I did from a dying battery. My theory is that cheaper adapters may have significant amounts of AC coming through on top of the DC, and that AC can leak into the signal processing circuitry and affect the sound. Some AC on the DC is okay if you are a powering a lamp, but not if you want unadulterated sound coming from your guitar. So use only a high quality adapter. I use the Visual Sound One Spot Adapter, available here on Amazon. I can't detect any of the distortion I heard when using a dying battery or cheap adapter. Yes, the One Spot is more expensive than other adapters, but it's designed specifically to power effects pedals. While you're ordering the One Spot Adapter, get a Visual Sound One Spot Multi-Plug Cable so the adapter can power multiple effects pedals. There's another reason not to use batteries. You must remove the pedal from the base to get to the battery compartment. The pedal is very difficult to remove and replace. The pedal pivots on two spring-loaded pins that are an exact fit into the holes in the pedal. Removing the pedal is awkward, at best. When replacing the pedal, it's difficult to get the pins lined up with the holes. If I were regularly using batteries, I would chamfer the inside corners of the holes, or carefully drill out the holes to make them a few thousandths larger. One surprise was the battery connector. It's a hefty plastic unit, unlike the cheesy 9V connectors found on most products—you know, the kind that are wrapped in vinyl and feel like they will break when you are trying to pry them off the battery. Frankly, this is the first product I've encountered with a high quality 9V battery connector.

A nice quality pedal. Sounds great, works as expected, doesn't feel "cheap" at all (despite the price being affordable). The ONLY reason I'm only giving it 4 stars is that it's 9VDC but does not come with a power adapter, and cannot use a 9V battery. If you buy this pedal, you will need your own 9VDC wallwort.

Behringer, like many other pedal makers out there, makes clones of other pedals. The difference is that Behringer isn't a greedy and doesn't as much or more than the original pedal. Most of Behringer's pedals are modeled on BOSS pedals and you can't go wrong with that! This one is a quality Compression/Sustainer pedal and like with any good pedal, if you can't get great tone out of it the problem is with you. This is a full size (think BOSS) pedal. Some are overly critical of the plastic housing, but it's a solid housing and I can't imagine what you're have to do with it to break it. Speaking of which, have you ever seen a picture of a Behringer pedal with a broken housing? Me Neither. My only suggestion is that you research compressions pedals a little before buy this or any other. It's not just a case of turning a knob and getting endless sustain. It's a little more subtle that that, with more parameters to play with.

BOSSのオーバードライブとVOXのアンプの併用で歪ませていましたが、今後、ライブやスタジオで違うアンプでVOXの歪みが再現できなかったら？と最近考えていました。 そして先日ベリンガーさんのヴィンテージディレイがとても音が良くしかも安かったので、ベリンガーでドライブ系を探してみたら、この商品が目に止まり値段も3300円しないので迷わずポチり。 結果、とても良い買い物が出来ました。 VOX＋BOSSのSD1の時よりウォームで正にヴィンテージ感が満載のドライブ音。大満足です。 ノイズもBOSSのSD1やVOXのアンプの歪みと比べて気になるものではありませんでした。 歪ませた時のノイズはある程度受け入れてるんでノイズをカットするエフェクターを今後購入予定です。その時も是非Amazonさんとベリンガーさんのお世話になりたいと思っています。本当に良い物作りをしてるメーカーだと思います。 本体は強化プラで金属ではありませんが耐久性に不安は感じない作りです。 これからも良いエフェクター作りを期待しています。楽しみです。

Most international reviews by metal players bother me a lot who criticize Behringer for emulating other products. This is a no-nonsense product with the best starting option for any level guitarist. It provides tube emulation with just mild overdrive. If you keep all controls straight up at 12 O'Clock and play any guitar, you will hear no hum but just plain, clear and just crunchy sound. Turning drive towards maximum adds up some noise. Use a noise gate like Behringer NR300 and yes use thicker cables for all patches and guitar to get rid of noise. Please do not use this simultaneously with other heavy distortion/fuzz/overdrive pedals from other companies. If needed at all as a support, use my method. I play Megadeth with this coupled with Behringer HM300 (with all HM300 controls set to just 7 O'Clock except level). Buy this if you want to add some 'warmth' in your metal playing. For Pantera, Slayer like stuff, don't expect anything from it. But from Judas Prist to Iron Maiden to Megadeth to Metallica to Van Halen to Twisted Sister, just go for it and enjoy as I mentioned. Stay away from nonsense reviews from over expecting guys who play unnecessarily loud with very big distortion pedals. They use Boss NS-2 in the end anyway to control noise. Use this with medium settings and enjoy!

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Excellent

This compression/sustain pedal is basic but very nice, also very reasonably priced. It gives the guitar a sweet, lingering tone, good for jazz as well as rock music, specially when playing lead. It really brightens up the clean tone of a Strat using the neck pickup. It also gives a nice long sustain when coupled with a distortion pedal at low or medium distortion. I don't think it's very useful at high distortion though.