Behringer i Axe 393 USB guitar

[Dark]

Has anyone seen one or tried one? it looks pretty cool for the price

http://www.behringer.com/IAXE393/

http://www.sonicstate.com/articles/article.cfm?id=118
(theres a video of it at the bottom of the review)

I'm pretty tempted to get one and have a go

[RobinHood]

Originally Posted by Dark

Has anyone seen one or tried one? it looks pretty cool for the price

http://www.behringer.com/IAXE393/

http://www.sonicstate.com/articles/article.cfm?id=118
(theres a video of it at the bottom of the review)

I'm pretty tempted to get one and have a go

This is the closest "Fender Clone" i have ever seen...even the slanted shape at the back...
If it can ONLY be used by a USB port, then ill be sceptical about this guitar ( unless you have 1000's in the bank ). I also had a look at the video, but wasn't THAT much impressed...The sound aint that good, sounds a bit "tinny", but that all depends at what you're looking for i guess...What i could see about the manufacturing of the guitar, it doesn't look solid, but also, maby its because im looking for things that my Strat has seeing this one also looks like a strat although its a clone...If you just want to stuff around, get this guitar...but if youre a serious player, skip this one....( just my 2 cents )

[Dark]

Thanks RobinHood, i'm really only thinking about buying it because its a gizmo and might be fun to play around with, it can be used like a regular guitar plugged into an amp apparently but i have other guitars for that.

For around £90 it could be produce some entertaining sounds

[mcnach]

It just gives you the option to connect via USB, as well as using it like any other guitar. If you have amp/speaker emulation software (Amplitube, Guitar Rig) etc, although the guitar itself comes with some limited version of one of those, I think. It may be quite handy, even if I doubt the guitar itself is all that great. But no, I never tried one, so who knows? Behringer stuff tends to work ok.

If you want to buy a separate guitar output to USB converter, it'll cost you at least around £70 (for a cable with built-in converter)... so the Behringer guitar seems like a good deal, as long as the guitar is decent... and these days you can get pretty decent guitars for little money, made in China... especially bolt-on strat style guitars...

I don't know! try one and tell us!

[Soliloquy]

i heard you can use the USB to connect to your guitar pro 5(or higher) and apperently, whatever you play translates into guitar pro. so say you strike an open A, the guitar pro will pick it up and say 'A---0---'

but then again, certain sounds are repeated over the fretboard, so dont exactly know how that will work

but yeah, as for that guitar, white guitars are always classy

[Dark]

Well theres one on ebay at the moment that finishes in a few days, so i'm going to keep an eye on it and see if i can bag myself a bargain, i'll post my thoughts on it if i get it

Thanks for the replies guys

[Auburn RSX-S]

Well.. it's not REALLY a fender clone so much as a Brian Moore iGuitar

http://www.iguitar.com/iGuitar/iGuitar.asp

Behringer is notorious for ripping off other company's products and this is no exception. I think behringer lacks the compitence to impliment a true 13 pin midi solution into one of their products to they've backed down and gone USB. Something Gibson was doing 2 or 3 years ago if I recall.

[RobinHood]

Originally Posted by Auburn RSX-S

Well.. it's not REALLY a fender clone so much as a Brian Moore iGuitar

http://www.iguitar.com/iGuitar/iGuitar.asp

..i think that guitar must cost a couple a bob...

[Auburn RSX-S]

They have models for everyone's budget.

This one is one of their basic Igutars

http://cgi.ebay.com/Brian-Moore-iGui...QQcmdZViewItem

Very reasonably priced in my opinion. If it's too expensive, save up more money becuase there aren't many guitars under $600 worth anything.

[mcnach]

Originally Posted by Soliloquy

i heard you can use the USB to connect to your guitar pro 5(or higher) and apperently, whatever you play translates into guitar pro. so say you strike an open A, the guitar pro will pick it up and say 'A---0---'

but then again, certain sounds are repeated over the fretboard, so dont exactly know how that will work

but yeah, as for that guitar, white guitars are always classy

that would imply a pitch-to-midi converter, and I am pretty sure that's not what the iAxe guitar has. It just has an analog-to-digital converter... that's all.

[mcnach]

Originally Posted by Auburn RSX-S

Well.. it's not REALLY a fender clone so much as a Brian Moore iGuitar

http://www.iguitar.com/iGuitar/iGuitar.asp

Behringer is notorious for ripping off other company's products and this is no exception. I think behringer lacks the compitence to impliment a true 13 pin midi solution into one of their products to they've backed down and gone USB. Something Gibson was doing 2 or 3 years ago if I recall.

Not the same thing at all.
The Brian Moore guitars have sensors for each string, and it's sort of equivalent at having one of those Roland GK2 or GK3 pickups on your guitar. You can use the output to feed into a pitch-to-midi converter, and you can output the midi for each string accurately (more or less). Roland's guitar synths liek the GR30 etc have that, plus all the synth section etc.
The Behringer guitar merely converts the analog signal (all of it) into digital, and exports it via USB. It's a very different animal (and substantially cheaper to make too).