It seems that the V - Verb is not being made anymore, is this its replacement, the FX2000, and if so, are they any good does anyone know?

Thanks for any help ;}

https://www.behringer.com/behringer/...odelCode=P0A3P

The FX2000 is an interesting muti-fx box with some unique features. While it's certainly no replacement for the amazing reverbs in the V-Verb, the FX2000 reverbs are pretty good. The Cathedral has a nice long tail without any overt modulation repeats. There are numerous other effects like long delays, stereo image processors, a vinylizer, resonator, vocoder, transient shaper, etc.

It's not the replacement but it's a pretty cool box IMO.

Yeah much better caps and I increased the cap sizes for the analog rails post regulators.

Switching supplies have a way of being kind of hard on caps so using high quality caps is a must.

I’ve done other mods to the digital stuff but I didn’t document anything. I just worked through it while I had it out and apart.

Thank you AxxeMan for your reply, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my question.

After doing a bunch of research for a great sounding reverb at a low price (thanks to this thread), I picked up a Behringer V-Verb Pro 2496 a couple of months ago and I am totally blown away. This thing sounds amazing. The reverbs are truly special and some of the other effects are quite nice as well. I have already gotten into programming my own patches too and it is impressive. I am using it as a light pipe insert to my tc electronic fireworx and the two play very nicely together.

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The converters might do much better with an external word clock pushing it into coherence.
T.ex Black Lion Audio, Micro Clock, or Lucid GENx192.

One review insinuated that it might have been the M3000 that was the inspiration for the developement, due to it sounding in that direction. You might be in for a nice surprise.

Having read the manuals for both units I see a lot of similarities. Stoked on my V-Verb Pro. It is truly impressive. I have yet to try an M3000 but would love to try these two side by side sometime.

I picked one up recently, came from evilBay in unopened plastic still had the film on the LCD..unused...probably lost in the woods B-stock or something...

Here's my comment about using it lightpipe which is SPDIF...I think (could be wrong) you are only getting one of the reverb engines this way...to take advantage of true stereo find a way to use it AES...this could be user error on my part but when I was using it ADAT one of the reverb engines did not seem to make any difference...it could also be the unit I was using...since it might be B stock or something...it works very well AES...and clocking externally...

Just so you know its running the same SHARC chip as UAD used in the original UAD2 cards...plus it runs a Trisend ARM chip which is an embedded SoC RISC processor which was really quite advanced for when these came out...

By the way...for the "tweakers" out there...there's a guy who is making a Panels app ( i think he's on windows) that allows you to control all the settings of this device via midi but control it using a "panel" on your computer...unfortunately the gui is basically a black and white version of the pea-green lcd the unit has...not sure the benefit of trying to do a gawd-awlful gui on your computer when you can keep it on the actual knobs...but he's sort of a tweaking github guy...

Panels by Janil

The unreleased potential here is that the unit CAN be controlled digitally (or more correctly "midi-lly" from the computer...

Someone should start a cottage industry to control all these older midi capable devices with modern nice GUI's...I'd buy it as long as the gui wasn't some Oregon Trails or Windows 3.1 nonsense.

Thanks for the heads up. Since I posted that I have changed my routing and am using it with the audio ins and outs using a mixer. I also did end up taking it apart, removing the hot glue, reseating the ribbons, using some deoxit, and the unit sounds much better. Here is a video of my routing from before I cleaned it out (so it sounds even better now): https://youtu.be/yYnkdy-jJmw?si=OGtGszDfTzlRkcqU

Using it in a mixer means it will go through the ADDA which are the same chips in the focusrite scarlett 2i2 and earlier (Cirrus Logic CS 4272)...eleven rack/etc...although they were also used in Apogee Duet/Ensemble so they aren't bad chips just older and easier to get a bad sound from (think echo layla etc)...

I don't think Behringer did an awful analog chain here but it used a pretty common copy and paste Walmart ADDA converter so using via ADAT or AES kinda drags it into our season of better A to D but depending on how you use it the other chips are fine.

I modded mine both the digital conversion a bit and the analog stages. Not bad at all.

The guy who is working on daw control needs to do this so it can be used for Mac as well.

Hmmm...I've never thought about reflowing the ADDA but I suppose its no harder than any other SMD part...as long as its not some 48 pin FPGA...seems you could look up the specs and pinouts and replace the AD/DA with newer drop in part as long as the supply voltages were adequate...

Without being too intrusive what exactly did you replace on the digital side?

Those older CS4272 aren't terrible but also fall pretty short of being excellent...especially since they use an on-chip oscillator for clocking...which might be a problem for a drop in replacement...I am unaware of any modern ADDA that use an onboard clock in the chip itself...the good ones all require outside clocking.

(Which is why on this particular case I recommend using external clocking for this device...jitter and clock drift aren't easily noticeable in reverb tails but you definitely won't get clarity if there's noise in the clocking)

Without going to far into how Behringer used this ADDA it could be good or could be otherwise...the CS4272 found its way into decent products and a LOT of low hanging products...pod6/eleven rack/etc/ Focusrite loved it put it everywhere...2i2/Saffire/etc...but it was also used in the Apogee Ensemble which in my opinion was a great sounding piece of kit...so there's that.

The V-Verb can only run one engine with digital I/O. However both engines are full stereo so you can run two complete stereo engines with a few interesting routing choices.

Ahhh someone read the manual...that explains a lot of my futzing about failures...thanks for the info.

I used to use one frequently, and was particularly impressed with how it did more natural-sounding spaces, smaller rooms and the like. A professional-sounding piece of kit for sure.

Honestly I don’t remember what all I did to it. I am sure I beefed up the supply decoupling on the digital side as well. Gotta have solid clean rails even for the digital stuff to get the best out of it.

Just uploaded my old Cubase MIDI Device Panel for the V-Verb to the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/v-verb-panel