Production Question: BBE Sonic Maximizer VST

Does anyone use this? I hear it's an essential tool to have. It only has 3 knobs but I have no clue what it does.

[Royal_Phunk]

essentially its just a limiter but it really gives your song an overdriven kinda feel if you need to liven up your stuff. Because of the sonic character of the maximizer they give you a hf stimulator as high freq sounds get lost in hard compression.

Its an alright toy but no better than the L3

[(val)Liam]

I use it to add extra bass or brightness without pissing around with the gain balances with the EQ

[IN-AC-URIT]

"overdriven kinda feel" I dont think so

It actually just makes your tune louder and sound shittier.

I dont think it is an essential tool.

If your tunez are good they'll mix themselves!!




EZ

Very interesting! So basically, it intelligently adds harmonics and maximizes loudness.

Can you explain what The "proces" and "lo contour" functions actually do?

What exactly is a limiter?

I use the Waves L3 on my master output bus durning my final mixdowns and it magically makes it sound good. I have no idea what it actually does. Is there any relation between a compressor and a limiter? if so, you can explain using compression lingo bc im familiar with that concept

Originally Posted by IN-AC-URIT

"overdriven kinda feel" I dont think so

It actually just makes your tune louder and sound shittier.

I dont think it is an essential tool.

If your tunez are good they'll mix themselves!!




EZ

Is that you HLAB? So to makes them sound loud just push 'em past 0db on er digital mixer? heheh

[Royal_Phunk]

Originally Posted by Junglist

Very interesting! So basically, it intelligently adds harmonics and maximizes loudness.

Can you explain what The "proces" and "lo contour" functions actually do?

What exactly is a limiter?

I use the Waves L3 on my master output bus durning my final mixdowns and it magically makes it sound good. I have no idea what it actually does. Is there any relation between a compressor and a limiter? if so, you can explain using compression lingo bc im familiar with that concept

Process refers to how much of the dry mix gets mixed with the "wet" signal (in this case the sonic maximizer) or how much you want the compressor to compress, through the LR master bus. Lo contour i have no idea cuz ive never touched it other than creating clarity in the lowend im not sure about that dial.

Compression usually refers to signal that is reduced above a set user defined threshold. So by reducing the highest peaks and bringing up the quieter sounds in relation you can get a more cohesive track. Compression is far too complex for me to go into because im very lazy. There is overall mix compression, multiband compression, drum bus compression, etc . each one youll have to learn how to mix properly to fit the tune your working on. Sometimes you wont need compression at all. Compression becomes limiting at hi ratios like 15:1 or 20:1+ depending on your limiter. So almost nothing passes through every sound is reduced to a certain db then boosted at the output stage. (we percieve loudness as "sounding good") =) So thats why the L3 can be magical.

[(val)Liam]

from the little info I got from the BBE it could be summed up that "process" adds HF brightness and "lo contour" adds LF harmonics... thats the easy explanation

[IN-AC-URIT]

If your tunes are good they will mix themselves.

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