Uli Behringer


Uli Behringer is a Swiss musician, sound engineer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and managing director of the audio technology manufacturer Behringer.

Childhood

Behringer's father was a church organist and nuclear physicist, his mother a pianist and interpreter, his uncle professor of composition at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and his aunt a classical singer and pianist. At the age of four, he started to learn piano. When he was five years old, his father built his own church organ with over 1000 pipes and integrated them into the family home. He had bought the organ from a church demolition in 1965.
Behringer was allowed to help his father to build this organ and learned a lot in the fields of crafts and electronics. At 16 Behringer built his first synthesizer - the UB1. In 1978 he built his first digital reverb.

Business and education

In June 2017, Uli Behringer unsuccessfully sued Dave Smith Instruments and 20 members of the Gearslutz forum for $250,000 for defamation. The lawsuit was thrown out of the Superior Court of California, with the judge ruling the lawsuit was a ‘strategic lawsuit against public participation’ – a lawsuit intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense.