guitar effects pedals: Behringer SM200 Slow Motion Effects Pedal From Behringer

Product Details

Behringer SM200 Slow Motion Effects Pedal
From Behringer

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Ships from and sold by 8th Street Music

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Product Description

The SM200 effects pedal smoothes out your guitar?s attack and swells the volume automatically?letting your guitar sound like a violin. This pedal provides a very classic and famous ?slow motion? sound effect. The SM200 features dedicated Attack and Sensitivity controls for awesome sound shaping. A cool blue status LED for effect on/off and battery check plus a first-class electronic on/off switch for highest signal integrity in bypass mode are included. The SM200 runs on a 9 V battery or a DC power supply (not included).

Product Details

Amazon Sales Rank: #7538 in Musical Instruments
Brand: Behringer
Dimensions: 1.70 pounds

Features

Make your guitar sound like a violin and experience a real cool 80's effect! Filters out the attack and swells the volume automatically
Dedicated Attack and Sensitivity controls for awesome sound shaping
Blue status LED for effect on/off and battery check
High-quality components and exceptionally rugged construction ensure long life
Runs on 9 V battery or the BEHRINGER PSU-SB DC power supply (not included)

Customer Reviews

Cool toy.

This thing is alot of fun. If you play with the settings you can get a wide variety of sounds. Putting a battery in it though, was one of the worst experiences of my life. OK, I'm exagerating, but really, getting into the battery compartment is awful. A challenge at times but a great pedal nonetheless

This pedal can be challenging but once you learn the right tweaks, you can get some interesting sounds. I can get a violin type sound, a dolphin type sound, and a kind of reverse type sound out of this things. I don't have the settings offhand but if you fiddle with it you can get some really cool sound out of it. I highly recommend it! Automatic Volume Swells...

It's a cool pedal, especially considering it's price, but don't be fooled. All this pedal does is perform volume swells. Any other sound you are able to create with this pedal, you wouldn't JUST be using this pedal. Think of it as a supplumentary effect. If you want to really get cool sounds with this pedal, you need to use it in combination with other effects; Reverse delay, wah, distortion, etc. It's convenient too, if you are playing and you want use volume swells, but you also want to use other effects like wah, whammy, something else that requires the attention of your feet. If you get the settings right you can just click this effect on and it will take care of the swells. I would say thats probably the best part about the pedal and the biggest reason to get it. Pure convenience. It has it's quirks though, If you set the sensitivity all the way at minimum it drastically cuts down your sustain. To the point where its non-existent. But the purpose of having the dial set like that is so that you can play loud and fast and still have the effect behave properly. If sensitivity is increased to say halfway and you try to play loud and fast, the volume effect will only occur on the first note struck... the rest will just play as if the effect was off. Other than that, its built well, doesnt add any hiss. no noticeable signal loss, other than if the sensitivity is at min. The battery compartment is a pain to get to thats for sure. power adapters are your friend. It's cheap, its convenient. But i wouldn't recommend it for someone who is more into metal or fast and loud styles of play because that pretty much renders this pedal useless... especially since that style usually results in moments where you want to hit and sustain a note in the middle of playing hard and fast... that type of thing will make this pedal a useless hunk of plastic and circuitry. Oh that reminds me, the casing is plastic... :-/