D82 Sonic Maximizer

The BBE D82 Sonic Maximizer Plug in is on sale 
at Musicians Friend for $9.99

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/bbe-d82-sonic-maximizer-plug-in

It's a good tool in it's proper place. But as was recently pointed out what hit record ever lost sales because the hi-hat was a bit too harsh?

It think this plug in got a mauling because it became so commonly misused as a 'sheen-maker' on entire mixes....eeewwwww.  I tend to avoid 'exciters' anyway but this is a much nicer tool than the hyper-smudge feature that Ozone calls an exicter.  IMHO of course.

For $15 it won't do any more harm than one allows it to.

I have let fate decide for me. 

I filled in the purchase form at MF, CC info and everything, but after clicking the final "continue" button it just dumped me back to the main page with no explanation. One of three things has occurred:  

1. the purchase did not go through, in which case luck has saved me from a bad impulse buy
2. the purchase did not complete but the CC charge did, in which case a $14 debit on the card and nothing in the mail
3. the purchase did go through, and a box will show up in a week. Then,
    3a. I will be pissed off at myself for blowing the price of 3 gallons of gas on another useless plugin, or
    3b. the plugin will be EXACTLY what I needed to ****e up that lackluster kazoo solo 


WTF..."S P I C E" is NOT a politically incorrect, blasphemous or inflammatory word!!! Who's in charge here, anyway?

It's what happens when you take the e off the end of spice that gets the forum robot all hot and bothered;-)

I too imagine it's not a breathtakingly good plug (although it recieved some stellar reviews when it first came out).  And I certainly should just avert my eyes from such FYIs as this.  But for $13 bucks it might prove useful to someone.  And that is a "fair" price.  Or is it?

Izotope's Alloy has a nice exciter and lots of other fun things with it :-)

But its only $15 right , ??whats $$$15? a few beers/meal/cigs/movie ticket??

It's actually almost 5 gallons where I live.  But then it would be gone.  And instead, for better or worse, I'll have a plug in that, hopefully...does something useful...that I can use for the foreseeable future and beyond...I'll keep ya posted.

bitflipper


About where it should have been priced all along, IMO. I might actually buy it at ten bucks. Maybe. 

EDIT: this is not a download, and there is a $3.49 shipping charge. Comes to $14.72 with tax. So if $9.95 was borderline justifiable, $14.72 is just a little further away from that line. Still not sure if it's worth it. (You may have guessed that I don't think much of BBE, but you never know when even a marginal plugin might be usable.)

In the days of analog tape is was absolutly indispensable.  Now I rarely use the plug in.

My initial attempt to buy the plugin had failed - after filling out the form it just dumped me back to the main page. I figured I'd probably just saved myself $14 and forgot about it. 

Then MF sent me an email saying I had an item in my cart, with a link to finish the transaction. OK, I thought. Fate does want me to buy it. So I clicked on the provided link and it took me back to the MF main page again. Because I had registered as "Guest" and therefore have no account to log in to, there is no way to actually access my shopping cart. The email warned me that I could not reply to it, so even though they know who I am there is no way to actually complete the transaction. I guess my credit card number will persist there forever in digital limbo, at least until some database administrator clears out the uncommitted transactions during annual maintenance.

Don't you just love this fully-automated human-free retail world we all now enjoy? Progress...nobody said it would be easy.

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is there a way to have an electronic delivery ....shipping to france : 35 $

Now that I have all the Fabfilter plugins .. I'll never have to buy another. Unless something is on sale for $2.00 [No shipping included]

Thanks youroldpal for the info the heads up on Nomad Factory.
I got the plug-in in 64 bit that way. My browser didn't like the auth file though.All sorted and working now. I love this plug-in.Pardon my typing on this phone.