BBE 882i Sonic Maximizer: Excitement Of Sound Enhancement

While Mario's magic mushrooms literally maximized his size in the popular platform games, Sonic had no tool to actually double his size. He did however, have a forcefield, which worked to the same effect. The BBE 882i Sonic Maximizer is like that extra hit for your sound, and in this demonstration, Bill Holland plugs in a drum machine to show how this amazing unit makes you seem louder, yet clearer. Many a unit can easily do one or the other, but both?

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• BBE
• 882i
• Sonic
• Maximizer

[Fireblaze15]

@mangenkyu Compressors squish the sound and push out making it sound louder. The maximizer just takes the sound.. and amplifies the frequencies more than an EQ can. Ive played with it on the guitar and with DAW's.

[Brandovibe]

Ever hear it used solely on vocals in a live application? If the signal was being processed prior to it reaching the board, would it still work? If it would, would this be beneficial to use before or after an effects processor in the loop? Thanks for any help with those questions.

[noodlecake71240]

I keep hearing mixed opinions on these things. Some love it, some hate it. From what I'm seeing here, it looks like a lazy eq, with a bass knob and a treble knob

[Trevorcjx]

Would i be able to use Channel A for lets say my bass amp, and then with the same Sonic Maximizer would i be able to plug Channel B into a guitar amp at the same time at a gig?

[skywalker3012]

@skywalker3012 If there are frequencies that are noticably out of phase, then yes, correction would make a significant amount of difference, depending on how much the waveforms are out. Just get your favourite DAW, find an audio sample, and disalign it by a few ms, most of the time (Depending on the frequency), you'll hear some sort of audio loss. Just whack a VST maximiser on it and hear it sing. Any phase correction software/hardware will do though.

This is a message to all :)

[skywalker3012]

@KaslarProductions Sound travels through the air at the same speed, regardless of the frequency. It is however, the frequency that defines how the waveform interacts with the medium with which it is travelling. Lower frequencies are less likely to be affected by air and all the other particles in it (Dust, smoke etc), and tend to reach the target first should there be a situation where the higher frequencies are interupted for whatever reason.

[huggu55]

@mangenkyu i wanna hear one of your mixes, and you better use EQ and compressors bitch.

[mangenkyu]

"The use of this (points to the BBE hardware) is studio signal paths; a lot of major studios now have these" WRONG! Real studios use EQs and compressors to do what this BBE device. Its market is amateur musicians and engineers who don't have the knowledge and/or talent to use standard studio equipment.

[jbealsmusic]

@KaslarProductions Yes, this phenomenon exists. It's a difference of only a few milliseconds and even with compensation the difference is virtually inaudible to the human ear. That "time-shift" is not frequencies travelling through the air at different speeds as you originally claimed. Perhaps you should keep studying and learning how this stuff works rather than taking the first thing you think supports your argument (whether you understand it or not) and posting it here.

[KaslarProductions]

"When these complex relationships pass through a speaker, the proper order is lost. The higher frequencies are delayed.

A lower frequency may reach the listener's ear first or perhaps simultaneously with that of a higher frequency. In some

cases, the fundamental components may be so time-shifted that they reach the listener's ear ahead of some or all of

the harmonic components. " nuff said