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I bought a rackmount thingy, a BBE Sonic Maximizer, and a rackmount powerstrip just now.

Anyone used the BBE gear? Is it any good?

I had to stop in because of the terror that the thread title instilled in me. It's too easy to get in trouble on E-Bay, let alone drunk. I've never used BBE, but I would be interested in your comments on all of those items after they arrive, if you feel like writing them that is.

I've got the BBE and used it for the harmonics end more than the big bottom. No "magic bullet" or anything but it makes an audible difference. It doesn't fit as well into my current setup as it used to so it's just sitting there in my rackmount thingy above the Furman strip. Hmm...maybe that's why I haven't liked the way my vocals have sounded lately - time to get it back in the chain, methinks.

I used to use a BBE on my final mixes, but that years ago, in the studio at college. It added a little "clarity" and "tightness" to a final mix. True it isn't a magic bullet, but it was kind of like washing the windshield of your car, you didn't realize how dirty it was until you cleaned it.

I had a BBE Sonic Maximizer. I used it a lot, then I discovered that the Digilog Dynamicator made my mixes a lot cleaner.



-Mike Lamb

i'm pretty sure blue used to swear by that sonic maximizer.

or at it.

Märk wrote: Anyone used the BBE gear? Is it any good?

There's a sonic maximizer sitting idle in my rack right now. For a while I'd strap it across the bus for final mixdown and think "Yeah this is awesome!"

Then I started doing one mix with it in the loop and one without and A/B-ing them later and found that we consistently preferred the "unmaximized" mix.

It eventually earned the nickname "sonic minimizer" and now serves the same function in my rack as the aforementioned Funk Logic unit.

Good input, people, thanks. FWIW, I'm planning on using this thing as a recording effect, not in post production. I've talked to vocalists and guitar players who both swear by it for live sound, although maybe like me, they just like more gear