Item: BBESS
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39 People rated this product :
7 out of 10
9 People wrote reviews
2 out of 10
"Save your board real estate...and $100"
Feature:
Nothing to say here, because there's nothing to make this thing useful.
Quality:
okay for what it is.
Value:
$100 can be spent in any number of better ways.
Desirability:
Don't want it now. Maybe eBay does?
Sound:
For live play, a useless and superflous add-on. The higher-end versions of this device may find a use in a studio/recording situation, but for live use, good-quality equipment is all you need. This thing puts out a little added "clarity" or "presence", if you want to call it that. You'll hear a little more emphasized treble, and with the "Contour" at about noon to 1PM, a tad more defined bottom. Again, nuances that are more discernable in a studio situation.
Ease of Use:
two dials, a switch, and two jacks .... how do you spell "Duh" ?
Support:
No opinion
Overall:
There's several other products out there....the Aphex Aural Excitor being one....that attempt to add clarity and definition to a signal after it's passed through other devices. If this is your aim, then i'd take a look at the Excitor, as it offers much more in the way of flexibility. It looks like BBE was trying to pull off an "end-around" with the competition with this box, making it 'simple' with two dials.....and appeal to the "plug-n-play" people who just want to punch-up a box and get cranking. IMO they failed.....this thing is more hype than substance.
Submitted: 12/6/2007
Style of Music: blues, rock, light jazz, alternative
9 out of 10
"If you don't own at least one of these you're nuts."
Feature:
I can give this a 10 because it's perfect.
Quality:
Solid and so simple that it should last a long long time. All metal.
Value:
The best $100 you will ever or have ever spent on equipment. Borrow the money!
Sound:
The Maximizer is phenomenal at what it does. You flick the switch and you have space and clean power to do whatever you want with. No mud in your crunch, no fuzz in your muff, just purity however you want to sound. The Maximizer is not an effect. It's a process that takes your signal and straightens it out so that your amp and ultimately your speakers (crossovers) get the information the right way so it can sequence it the right way, so it sounds, the right way ... the way it sounds. Crazy huh? Well, I've been playing a long time and have had one or another of the incarnations of this machine. The only reason I've given it a 9 is that I don't know what 10 is and you have to leave some room for BBE.
Ease of Use:
Plug it in.
Support:
No idea.
Overall:
This is a permanent part of my rig, as basic as strings or cables. And I'll tell you something, if you're thinking of swapping out your PUs spend a hundred bucks and then forget it. Eventually if you want to swap out your PU's it will even sound better. But you won't need to, you'll just want to.
Submitted: 11/9/2007
Style of Music: Rock, jazz, alternative, roots R & B, funk, blues
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