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Take your entire BBE DJ rack into one software plugin: the BBE Sonic Maximizer

So the perfect intro for this DJ product review is another DJ product review (huh!..how odd..) that I wrote on one of BBE’s DJ products. I was pretty enthusiast about it at the time, and it was because of what it promised to do. I’m talking about the 882i sonic maximizer, which was a little unit fit for your DJ rack, but that in the right conditions, would really boost up your mix to new heights (and mids and lows too…). The reason I was a little dissapointed about the 882i unit is because I already knew much of this sound tweaking business had already gone virtual, and working DJ can now get amazing effects and plugins to use on all their mixes in a bit of hard drive. So I was a bit reluctant to actually recommending a hardware unit when it’s just as easy to get about the same effect with a small download.

Now BBE made it even easier, by releasing their Sonic Maximizer plugin, a little piece of DJ software that runs under pretty much all your favorite DAWs and tries to emulate (and many DJ product reviews say that it succeds) the original 882i sonic maximizer in effect. That’s actually BBE’s main idea behind the Sonic Maximizer plugin, to reproduce virtually the effects of the real 882i. I guess they figured it was about time, since the whole industry started shifting gears towards digital. Now, luckily for digital DJs who appreciate a good hardware effector, you don’t ever have to go analog to do that. Just keep it 100% digital, easy to handle, and run the BBE Sonic Maximizer plugin in your favorite DAW. By the way, as a professional plugin, the Sonic Maximizer has pretty much universal compatibility, and it’s really very important in the land of digital effects, so here are the main favorites for running the Sonic Maximizer plugin:

• Steinberg Cubase, as VST or SL
• Bias Peak
• Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, Sound Forge for XP, Sony ACID or CD architect
• Syntrillium Cool Edit Pro
• every Cakewalk DAW and sound application known to…well, Cakewalk
• and of course, the Sonic Maximizer works on both Windows and Macs, taking up just 4 MBs of space, under both VST or Direct X drivers

If you didn’t get a chance to read a DJ equipment review about the 882i or even better, try it for yourself, the Sonic Maximizer plugin is your shot, as it offers digital DJs the same fresh and highly detailed sound of its hardware counterparts. The technology behind it is even the same, with the BBE 4th generation processing engine in the background, just like in the analog 882i.

What’s even better, the Sonic Maximizer doesn’t mean just one 882i for the working DJ but a whole rack of them set to automation, making processing multiple tracks easy on your computer. No BBE DJ product review about the Sonic Maximizer plug in can ignore the fact that the algorhythm behind this little DJ software emulates so well the brilliance of the real sonic maximizers, the warmth and punch that addicted many DJs and made them carry a little 882i in their backpack to all of their gigs. Except now, it’s all digital and it works exactly the same, so check out the BBE website or treat yourself to a nice Sonic Maximizer plugin to use straight away in your mixes.

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