These effects pedals, as well as all Behringer's products, have a terrible reputation for build QC.If you get a good one, great -- if not, you can expect to do some minor repairs on this very fragile plastic case...if not immediately, then eventually.

The BDI21 has the reputation of being "the one worthwhile Behringer effect," and it does a great job as an analog-modeling DI box for bass, but mine arrived with problems due to screws having stripped out of the cheap plastic internal on/off switch flange mount.

I hesitated to give 5 stars since the upper case is plastic (the bass is metal) and the actual foot switch is really flimsy plastic.

The BDI21 has the reputation of being "the one worthwhile Behringer effect," and it does a great job as an analog-modeling DI box for bass, but mine arrived with problems due to screws having stripped out of the cheap plastic internal on/off switch flange mount

These effects pedals, as well as all Behringer's products, have a terrible reputation for build QC.If you get a good one, great -- if not, you can expect to do some minor repairs on this very fragile plastic case...if not immediately, then eventually

Straight into the board, my P-Bass growls, thunders and roars just like through an SVT!

I get a much cleaner signal this way than going 1/4" direct from the passive p-bass into the preamped 1/4" instrument input on the audio interface (true in both amp modeling and bypass mode).

And when the battery is dead it fails to work even as a