BBE Sonic Maximizer

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I thought the 100 bucks I spent on a Maximizer was well worth it.It certainly gave my shitty 4 track recordings some much needed punch and clarity.Maybe it is making up for a lack of better equiptment, but it was a much more affordable solution than buying all new equiptment.I've used it in a bass rig for playing live, which made my low end bass rig sound better, fuller.Since switching to a digital, it is now hooked up to my $400 stereo/entertainment center and adds a hell of alot for the money $100 it cost me.I guess if you can spend thousands on equiptment, you probably don't need a maximizer.
 
60's guy..... if anyone is taking anything "personal" it appears to be you......

My only "personal" comment was regarding wasting money due to the overpricing of cables.... the rest of my post was merely informative - as a matter of fact, I personalized my own approach to hi-fi listening/components. Where you got all the other stuff about "assuming ignorance, blah-blah" I have absolutely NO idea.....

The last paragraph was simply a description of best recording practice (which doesn't include the use of "sonic maximizers")......

I suggest you re-read my post again without feeling so defensive........ lighten-up "old-man", we're not out to "get ya" here!!! ;)


PS - in the hifi world, at least around here, the exact same Monster cable is also sold under the RCA brand name at about 1/3rd the price -- the reason it's the same is that the cable for both brands are made at EXACTLY the same place.
 
Blue Bear,
Thanks for setting the record straight on cables. I wasn't
aware of the RCA thing. Any idea on model number and such?
I don't mind spending money on quality, but I do object to
getting taken to the cleaners.
Sorry about the "ignorance" thing. I guess I just misread
that "novice" word.
 
Apart from the price you would be hard pressed to find any difference between Monster and the high end Pro Co and Horizon or better yet Mogami or Canare.
 
I've found them useful for beating senseless guitar players.

Makes a good ashtray holder.

It's also entertaining to take the left channel out and feed it into the right channel in, thereby maximizing the maximization, which creates a theoretical operational impossibility that the BBE can't rectify, creating a bizarre 5th order time continuum that makes music suck worse than it's ever sucked before, but before it ever sucked.
 
Monsters posing as RCAs??!!!???!!!

BlueBear, I think your strange Canadian sense of humor and delivery are lost on some of us Americans and we get defensive, maybe its the language difference...I dont know. :)


I too would like to know the name and/or model/series of cables you are referring to.

Thanks again
Twonky
 
volthause said:
I've found them useful for beating senseless guitar players.
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Really? I thought there was some use for it, Im still not convinced that its worth the pricetag. Frying pans are under $20 and you have it can double as a coaster for several drinks.

SoMm
 
I just looked -- the model is not stamped on the cable... and of course, I don't keep the cable packaging!

Bottom line is, however, price is not necessarily the determining factor in deciding whether cable is good or not.

Monster cable is badly overpriced (and overhyped, but that's another story).... while you don't want to get bottom-feeder junk which is frail and thin -- you don't need to shell $25/ft or more for high-quality cable either!
 
Fair enough, thanks for looking. The brand is RCA though?

Twonk
 
twonky said:
Fair enough, thanks for looking. The brand is RCA though?

Twonk
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Yes - the reason I remember is because I was shocked to discover that they were made at the same place! (One of the last brands I would have considered "quality"-anything is RCA!)
 
volthause said:
I've found them useful for beating senseless guitar players.

Makes a good ashtray holder.

It's also entertaining to take the left channel out and feed it into the right channel in, thereby maximizing the maximization, which creates a theoretical operational impossibility that the BBE can't rectify, creating a bizarre 5th order time continuum that makes music suck worse than it's ever sucked before, but before it ever sucked.
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Isn't that how Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star?
 
It was the main part of Mr Fusion, the circuitry that allowed the Doc and Marty McFly to travel back in time. You just threw a couple of bananna peels and some beer, and zowie, there you go, your pummeling through the space time continuim.
 
I'm waayy too cheap to buy stuff like that. I think that makes me almost as smart as Roel.
 
bbe systems are not crap, but may mostly be used last in the audio chain before stage amplification, and work as phase processors:

usually a speaker tends to delay the high frequencies more than the lows, due to its lowpass filter caracteristics, and a bbe sonic maximizer compensates for the delay induced by the speaker by continuously shifting the highs ahead in time, so that when delayed by the speaker's phase alteration they come through as if the speaker was phase linear . It is a sort of focus control, but it is percieved as an EQ by our ears and brain. And of course the results heavily depend on your speaker configuration.

knowing how it works can help using it in a wiser manner for sure.
 
If my BBE 862 time aligns hi-frequency signals with low-frequency signals then what is actually happening as I turn up the "process" knob and why do I also need a "Low end" knob?
 
Just like the Alesis 3630 the BBE was a fine tool in its day, but that was the early 90s.

Im trying to sell my BBE but I guess its not worth pulling out of the rack.

I would sell the Alesis 3630, but with all the pretty lights it still impresses the chicks. So its nice to have it on and working with the signal going nowhere. I wish my BBE 462 would have had more lights.
 
They are fun to play with. I have the plugin variety. Unfortunantly the plugin is useless as a paper weight.... I think I used it once on a song with the vocals, cause my vocals suck anyway. I mastered a song with it and compared it to original and I already do the smily face eq thang at times. It was like super big smily face and I lost my lead gtr way into the mix. Now Im a guitarist and cant have that. In the MP3 mixing clinic I have been acused of using one and that really hurt. This site isn't BBE sonic maxifriker friendly. At first I thought I had the shit, but after trying it out like my lousy drum machine I wasted some dollars.
Just my 2 pennies worth.......
:D Myx
 
Don't listen to Blue Bear!!!!!!

He's just trying to throw you off the trail. I happen to know that he EXCLUSIVELY uses a BBE for ALL his mastering jobs, but he hides it in his rack with a fake face plate so his clients never know!!!! Those Canucks are deceptive as hell.

The BBE is a fine piece of gear. In fact, I just happen to have one for sale....hardly used.


Anybody?
 
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