Anybody here own a BBE Sonic maximizer?

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I recently bought a use BBE Sonic Maximizer for my acoustic pieso pickup and
find out that I will never get without one from now on, after some trial and
error tweaking for hours I finally found a good setting that just bring the
pickup to life.

My question is should I get a newer version I'm looking at the BBE 862 on
EBay now and I'm real tempting for the Dual channel capability since I do
have a dual pickup system in my acoustic guitar and I can see good use in
the recording stage of everything for that matter.

What your taught?

Alain

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AL wrote:

> I recently bought a use BBE Sonic Maximizer for my acoustic pieso pickup and
> find out that I will never get without one from now on, after some trial and
> error tweaking for hours I finally found a good setting that just bring the
> pickup to life.

> My question is should I get a newer version I'm looking at the BBE 862 on
> EBay now and I'm real tempting for the Dual channel capability since I do
> have a dual pickup system in my acoustic guitar and I can see good use in
> the recording stage of everything for that matter.

> What your taught?


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offers several past discussion of BBE's in rec.audio.pro. Enjoy!

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AL wrote:
> I recently bought a use BBE Sonic Maximizer for my acoustic pieso
pickup and
> find out that I will never get without one from now on, after some
trial and
> error tweaking for hours I finally found a good setting that just
bring the
> pickup to life.
>
> My question is should I get a newer version I'm looking at the BBE
862 on
> EBay now and I'm real tempting for the Dual channel capability since
I do
> have a dual pickup system in my acoustic guitar and I can see good
use in
> the recording stage of everything for that matter.
>
> What your taught?
>
> Alain

One is probably enough, and your $ may be better spent elsewhere.
Assuming you're using a mixer, mix your 2 gtr signals first, then use
the BBE as a bus effect. The BBE sounds great at first, but as time
goes by you find you need less and less - the sound can be fatiguing to
listeners - don't go overboard. One channel is probably enough. They
are handy with anaolog recording, but unnecessary for diigital with
good equipment.

Mikey Wozniak
Nova Mobile Productions
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"hank alrich" <walkinay@thegrid.net> wrote in message news:1gui7j7.4chy1vz6yezaN%walkinay@thegrid.net...
> David Morgan wrote:
>
> > You'll find that
> > the concensus is that the BBE is for tackling frequency specific problems,
> > usually for restoring life to previously poorly recorded sources.

> So when a magazine reviewer proclaims that it made all his tracks sound
> better...

I'm forced to assume he's a writer and not a recordist, or was paid well by BBE.

DM