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Re: sonic maximizer

143.236.35.202

Posted by STUART on January 12, 2007 at 07:44:01

In Reply to: sonic maximizer posted by GoWolfpack on January 12, 2007 at 06:33:13:

I picked one up used for like 15 bucks and thought I would try it

I have only used the thing once in a DJ setup

I typed out snips from the manual
It is not word for word but it gives you the idea here

It imparts a pre-determined phase correction to the high freqs
where most harmonic information exists. It breaks the signal into three sub-bands or groups;
Low freq group which is crossed over at 150hz, the mid xover@2500hz
and the high freq group that handles everything else up to 20k
Low group is delayed 2.5 milliseconds (below 150hz)
It has a control to set at flat or boost @50hz
Mids are delayed at .5 milliseconds while the highs are passed
through a voltage control amp. The high group is used as a point of reference to make dynamic amplitude corrections to the high freqs
RMS loudness detectors continuously monitor both the mids and high
freqs to compare the relative harmonic content levels of the two bands
and apply the appropriate amount of control voltage to the VCA
thereby determining the amount of high freq harmonic content present at the final output

Basically the thing delays parts of the bandwidth to the high end
and gives some kind of weird glazed sound to the highs
I can tell you that this thing sounds weird and generates alot
of harmonics when you put alot of the effect on a signal

I think basically with a small amount of the effect it can be ok

I know my first impressions of it when I heard it on a system
was...there is something weird about that sound

I had to filter out that bite your head off stuff it generated
from 2k to 6k with a 2/3octave eq

Thats all I can say and I hope this helps you a bit

Play with it
They are cheap in price

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