BBE Maximizer???

[lemonsucker]

This magic box is such a joke!Sucram is correct that the sonic maximizer "time alligns" the bass and treble frequencies to "cure" the supposed phase differences between the placement (distance from your ear) of the voice coil of the two speakers.
Visualise how the woofer goes deeper into the speaker box than the tweeter does,perhaps even a 5 or 6 inch difference in distance from your ear.
The BBE uses a crossover to split the signal and a digital delay to supposedly time allign them.That's it in a nutshell.But look at the product literature and they clain to "tighten" the sound and other such puffery.
My band had one we used live for a year (over my objections,it belonged to the rhythm guitar) and all I noticed is how the PA fed back at much lower levels!Not exactly what we wanted so we quit using it altogether.

Tom

ahhh, i don't know if it really does such a thing, but to me the BBE just scoops some mid out.
i would never use it on a full mix, yet it gives a "pro" feel to guitars and some strings. but to my ears it's just a mid scooping eq with fancy graphics.
i must say that i've only tried the direct-x plugin version of it and not the hardware thing but i guess it's the same...