BBE Sonic Sweet – Optimized features 4 optimized plug-ins that bring the legendary BBE Sound into your latest productions. BBE Sonic Maximizer – Optimized For years professional musicians and studio engineers have known that the BBE Sound Sonic Maximizer is the best way to get that professional sound and extra sparkle that is so difficult to capture.

In a nutshell it seems to keep the mids from blending together with the highs and lows, without actually making the mids less loud.I've got the BBE 462 rackmount and also the DOD version of the pedal, but the DOD pedal doesn't have the bass control like the BBE has. The rackmount I like either on mixes, or on FOH vocals to help them stand out from the instruments. You have to make sure the vocal in the monitors doesn't go through it though because feedback seems to start easier with it.The pedal I like better for piezo into the mixing board than I do on electric guitar. Maybe on electric it would work better in an insert between preamp and power amp. Upgrade everything with the all-analog Sonic Stomp, the one piece of gear which improves the performance of your whole rig.

And now, the MS-92 lets players with pedal boards have all the benefits of a Sonic Stomp with about half the space than the SS-92 due to new circuit topography and elimination of the battery compartment.Whether you’re a guitarist or bassist, get ready to be amazed. With Sonic Stomp’s proprietary BBE Sonic Maximizer technology, you’ll hear your amp cut through the band mix better with dramatically improved note definition in chords and solos. Even with a wall of distortion, the distinct harmonic elements of each note can be heard like never before. Time-based effects take on a level of realism and dimension you never thought possible. And if low-end punch is your thing, you’ll discover the Lo Contour control is the ticket to meaty chunk without the mud.It’s like lifting a blanket off your amp to reveal the full potential of your gear and your musical expression. When you’re ready to Maximize Your Tone, get your hands on a Sonic Stomp. Just to go into detail, the BBE is the kind of thing that you can make things sound amazing or utter crap.To paraphrase, imagine you are in a studio.

You just tracked your guitar parts and now the mixing engineer is making it all fit together. Chances are he's going to EQ your guitar parts. Well there's nothing wrong with the source guitar parts, but they need to sit into the mix. It's no good having an amazing guitar part if it's going to have some issues with a drum part or even a vocalist.

So you boost up the 400Hz and notch down the 2kHz to put that particular guitar into it's own range maybe away from the vocal.Now imagine you had this sort of tweak-ability live. Maybe you run two guitarists, a synthy keyboardist and a female and male vocal. Not to mention the bassist and drummer.Having the ability to notch your overall guitar amp sound is a great tool to have in the right hands.What does in the right hands mean? Well this is a pedal you have to learn.

And you have to learn it in context with your amplifier. That will mean rigging up your amp at stage volumes, putting the BBE around the loop and learning how the controls interact with each other and how they match up with the EQ on your amp.

Just turning it on and hoping for the best won't get you there.Does it make a difference? With the right soundguy and PA, my guitar sounds beautiful.Would I leave home without it? In a pinch, sure! If I had no space on my pedalboard for it, I'd certainly make do without it.Would I recommend one?

If you can put the time in to learn it then absolutely! Click to expand.I found that keeping the knobs around 9 o'clock does not really make anything above or below unity.

I typically run the Lo Countour around 8 and Process around 9. What you are describing is really just using an EQ, which the SS does have EQ-esque features but that is not the main point. It is kind of frustrating that BBE does not really tell you exactly what it does but leaves it up to 'magic' and only allows the actual word to be spread through pedal demoers.They are releasing a much smaller version which new I think is around $99. Find it used for those solid $50-60 prices.If it helps us at all, here is a video explanation. The pedals are useless I think.The rack units can be good for certain things live or recording.

I used them for synth parts.Honestly the Aphex Aurol Exciter is better I think. Same idea but works differently (the BBE supposedly just aligns the natural latency of the bass and high frequencies so they leave/reach ten user at the same time). The Aurol Exciter does something entirely different. But the results are similar.Butbagain the BBE pedal is nothing like the rack unit. In short, if you already have a good sounding amp, the BBE will do no good and may actually do harm.

If you have a bland sounding clean channel on your amp, it may make it sound a bit better.Like I said I used to use it (and the Aphex) for my synths relgiously back in the day. I dint use or own eithe fine anymore. (Scratch that apparently I still do own the pedal. It was a gift I never used and would cost more to ship than it's worth to sale).

BBE processors have been around for many years now, finding their way into the racks of studio engineers, live sound engineers, radio broadcasters and other folks involved in audio production.Now, the patented BBE process has gone beyond the realm of hardware and entered the virtual world of plug-ins. The new DirectX/Mac VST `plug-in ($99) restores clarity and detail to sounds just like its hardware counterparts, with the added benefit of being able to process as many channels of audio as your PC or Macintosh computer can handle.FeaturesThe BBE plug-in will be immediately familiar to those who have used BBE processors – the plug-in mimics the look of the BBE rackmount processor, right down to the blue swoosh graphic and four Phillips-head screws. Controls even look the same, including the plug-in’s In/Out switch, Lo Contour knob and Process knob. A familiar five-LED output level meter starts at -20 dB and terminates in a pair of red CLIP indicators.The plug-in has a few features not found on the hardware processors, including an Output Level knob, handy for controlling plug-in gain structure. Also exclusive to the plug-in is the ability to save and load presets; great for instant recall of the plug-in’s settings when revisiting a mix, or for copying the same settings to many other tracks.Dialing in the BBE process is simple.

Just engage the In/Out button, and turn up the Process and Low Contour knobs until your audio sounds like you want it.The BBE Process knob restores clarity, detail and air in a way that plain EQ cannot by making upper harmonics arrive when they should relative to lower-frequency sounds. The Process knob also boosts upper-mid and treble frequencies in program-dependent fashion to accentuate the effect.The Lo Contour knob operates in the same manner as the upper-frequency process, aligning harmonics with the lower fundamental frequencies through BBE’s proprietary process. Again, the Lo Contour function provides program-contextual low-end “enhancement” that cannot be achieved with a standard EQ.In UseBBE has provided plenty of range on each of the processing controls to address even the most problematic recordings – with up to a maximum boost of 12 dB per control. (As with any processor, on typical recordings, cranking in too much of an effect can negatively alter the sound (start out subtle).On the top end, the BBE processing can work some serious magic.

It opens up percussion, acoustic and electric guitars, making them sound crisp and alive. The processing also adds low-end bite and growl to bass, and can restore shimmer and air to vocals – especially backing vocals.The BBE plug-in places minimal load on the CPU – I estimated it at about 1 percent of CPU resources per channel (on my Micron Millennia 933 MHz Pentium III machine). Symbol for angle. This means you can stack up BBE plug-ins without taxing your system too much.Which is exactly what I did in testing out this plug-in. I brought up a song in-progress, and started replacing high-frequency EQ, high-pass filters and exciters with the BBE plug-in. If I liked what I heard, I left the plug-in and yanked the others. By the end of the experiment, I had BBE plug-ins scattered all over my project and CPU load had actually decreased.The BBE plug-in supports internal processing resolutions of 16-, 24- and 32-bits, and works with the usual sample rates from 22 kHz to 96 kHz.

It will also happily work on both mono and stereo tracks.The DirectX plug-in is distributed by Cakewalk and the Mac VST version is directly distributed by BBE plug-in developer, Virsonix. Free trial downloads and purchase information can be found on the Virsonix web site atSummaryOverall, the BBE DirectX/VST software offers the same no-fuss openness and detail of the hardware units, earning it a place on my must-have list of audio plug-ins.Contact: Versonix at 650-483-6952.