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Post by play4jc on Jan 26, 2007 18:26:54 GMT -7
Anyone ever use the BBE Sonic stomp sonic maximizer pedal? I bought this for 100.00 and its the last pedal in the chain, It takes the tone to a different level, Its reviewed as like taking a blanket off the speakers. It has 2 knobs, lo contour and process, i keep it the levels at 1:00 o'clock click it on and leave it on. Just wondering, it is awesome, it takes my tone at least 40% clearer, sweeter. Buy it at guitr center, they have a 30 day return, you prob won't. I just hooked it up to my new 18w jr, u"ll love it
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Post by 95strat on Jan 29, 2007 10:02:28 GMT -7
Did you find your high gain tone yet?
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Post by play4jc on Jan 29, 2007 13:33:07 GMT -7
not yet, a friend just brought me a fulltone ocd to use, my bd-2 and ts9 are doing ok, jury still out on this amp, feel kinda stuck tho, love the amp, never payed 1600.00 for anything, always had a 2 channell... not sure about this pedal, i had 1 last year on a mesa boogie and the mesa and pedal were close in tone. I played a stock ds-1 saturday at low volume tho, i see by tuesday as I work late on Monday nights,, thanks for asking
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Post by 95strat on Jan 29, 2007 14:54:55 GMT -7
It always takes time learning a new amp. Stick with it and you'll find your sound. Let me know what you come up with. I think I'll go with the Maz when I get the money together. Going to play on on Friday.
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Post by Strato on Jan 29, 2007 23:22:12 GMT -7
Honestly, it took me a year to fall in love with the maz. I was never 100% in love with it until i played a 2000+ seat auditorium with the amp cranked as loud as I could ever want it. That + bb pre + gibson was amazing.
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Post by Strato on Jan 29, 2007 23:28:25 GMT -7
When it comes to the sonic stomp, is this the same as the BBE sonic maximizer rack unit, just in a pedal form? I know they always recommended running the sonic maximizer in the effects loop.
Also, when they say " its like taking a blanket off of the speakers," does that mean the amp will get even brighter? I kind of have alot of that already especially if i put my head in the direct path of my Zbest.
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Post by guitargeorge on Jan 30, 2007 6:11:03 GMT -7
I can't see why you would want to boost the high end on a MAZ 18 jr, mine has plenty of that, and plenty of lows also, so just what does this BBE sonic maximizer actually do?
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Post by play4jc on Jan 30, 2007 6:46:36 GMT -7
BBE has been around since forever when everyone in the 80's had rack mounted units. As i understand it it take the freq.'s and release them at a different time. Any amp will benefit with this unit. Read on Harmony central and bbe website. Ive only owned this amp a short while and never hooked it up till recently thinking it wouldn't do any good. Its a cool pedal, try it out, return it if its not for you.Ive never tried it in the effects loop, i want it thru the preamp section also. It just opens it up tonely, not like a fat boost that pushs the preamp, use those also, its a cool pedal that does great
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Post by play4jc on Jan 30, 2007 6:57:11 GMT -7
gotten a couple emails, it just brightens up the tone, litteraly taking a blanket off the speaker, ive noticed prob a 40% sweeter tone
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Post by guitargeorge on Jan 30, 2007 7:30:39 GMT -7
I can see this working on a PA system where you are running highs, mids and lows and the enhancer gives all the speakers the same velocity (I don;t know if that is the right word) in that all the sound hits your hearing at the same velocity, I don't see how a guitar amp with 1 or 2 speakers pushing the same output would benefit from this, the maz can get icepick, earbleed high end and all you have to do is turn it up or down to taste.
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Post by billyguitar on Jan 30, 2007 8:04:38 GMT -7
I used to have a couple of the rackmount units. I don't remember why I had two?. Anyway it's supposed to delay the lows so the highs come out a hair quicker and you hear the attack of the note before the thud. I didn't care for it in the PA. I tried it on guitar for fun and it sounded unnatural to me so I sold them both for peanuts. I prefer a very traditional clean toned guitar, which is VERY hard to get, so my opinion must be taken in that context.
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Post by guitargeorge on Jan 30, 2007 8:23:39 GMT -7
That's my way of thinking also, although I use pedals I find the uncluttered sound of a Dr. Z something that I would not mess with. I was into rack stuff in the late 80's and early 90's and one day I just plugged in, guitar into the amp and saw the light, the only rack units I use are a Digitech IPS-33B harmonizer and a stereo noise gate/compressor and the only reason I have the compressor is to quiet the "strat hum" I just installed Bill Lawrence noisless L-280 and L-290 pups in my strat so the compressor/noise gate is not necessary, now that I have a quiet strat. I guess to each his own, but I prefer the minimilast approach, especially with Dr Z amps, they sound so good with nothin.
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