anyone use a sonic maximizer?
Im thinking about buying one, and would like some opinions.

what exactly is a sonic maximizer? is it anything like an aural exciter?

kinda....it contours the low and high end and says its like taking a blanket off of your speaker cab.
I just wanna know if by that they mean it gets all crispy and presence laden...which I dont want.

i have an aural exciter. im really not sure what it does technically but for me, basically it got rid of all the noise i didnt even realize was coming out of my amp and made it sound bigger. i like it. i dont know if thats what youre looking to get though.

trust me, you dont need that in your set-up.

I basically want to tighten my low end a little bit, and maybe get a tad more mid 'push' but not honky or quacky

and, noise wise, im golden, my amp is quiet as hell with my ns-2.
but I kinda think that may be some of my problem , being that the suppressor deadens the sound a touch. so maybe....I dunno.

i have a 482 sonic max.... It does a good job at what it does, but it's not really necessary unless your sound is lacking in punch, and clarity.

ok...but what does it do to your amp specifically?

i gots a 462 bbe, i will never play without it, hey kok ill show you what the difference is at the halloween show, you can turn it on and off and have absolutely no trouble telling the huge difference

i am going to get one for my home stereo eventually, cause it has rca jacks on it too, makes everything sound like you paid 2 thousand dollars more for your setup, i love it

ok cool. thx pal.

I use to use it in the loop of my marshall, but the more I used it the more I turned it down and eventually didn't even have it on anymore...

I must say It works wonders for car audio and probably home audio. My old ALPINE deck had bbe built in and it made shit sound awesome.

I think I'm going to replace my NS-2 with this...

I really just want to fill my rack!! heh...but I dont want something I totally WONT use.

RustedAngel said:

y?

from what I'm hearing it's much more transparent and responsive to staccato notes than any other noise reduction system out there. There is a rack version of that pedal as well but it's $300...the pedal you can get for about the same price as an ns-2.

hmm sounds cool...lemme know if u get it.

chris from psyopus uses that noise supressor.

blue nli said:

yeah it was cool to see that he was using one...

powerkok said:

even if you dont use it, if you buy it here
http://search.ebay.com/bbe-sonic-maximizer_W0QQsokeywordredirectZ1QQfromZR8
you wont be out bigtime, this is where i got mine for 86 bucks, perfect condition too

RustedAngel said:


hey rusted??? where can you buy one of these!!! i searched on ebay, zzounds.com and ams and noone had em

i was having serious noise problems last night (i think it the wiring i did in my guitar though) but this will make up for my shitty wiring job.

they got a good review on my fav review site (http://www.harmony-central.com/Effects/Data/ISP_Technologies/Decimator_Noise_Reducer-01.html)
so thats good enough for me

a guy i know from harmony central is a distributor for them.

http://www.rocksolidamps.com/ -- contact derek for a quote.

ill stick to the noise supressor in my pod pro, thank you very much.

rad, thanks

blue nli said:


of course you would

I use pod too, but the ns dosent do enough for me.

A sonic maximizer boosts harmonic frequencies. It's really neat at first, as the difference is so apparent one tends to immediately think it's better. Then after a while, you realize that it just squashes dynamics, and causes ear fatigue with prolonged exposure. If you get one, just use it SPARINGLY. I can't stress that enough.

I have one for my diezel to bring out my pinches, I don't like the high tone on the diezel head.

It's the kindof thing that after you use for two years, on a quiet night you can't sleep because your ears are ringing perminently.
a good idea is to pickup earplugs, and no the ones your thinking of. PIckup some DB compensating earplugs wich are made of a sortof jell that blocks certain frequencies from being heard but don't actually muffle any sound.

i agree with arrow head. it definitely brings some punch and clarity to the low and high end, but some midrange frequencies seems "squashed" somehow. i don't use it with my main rig (all tube), but on my solid state practice amp, it sounds a lot better, almost like a tube amp.