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

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.)

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.

Also...I think it has been much improved since Nomad Factory took it over.  For $13 to $15 it's certainly worth a try.  I mean...even Bit is tempted:-)

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?

I have the software version and the original hardware unit, and the software does not do what the box can and does. The hardware version is not as "brittle", perhaps becasue it is analog..

I purchased mine for way more than the 15 dollars , and really dont use it .

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?

 The first plug I ever bought when I had Guitar Tracks 2.0. Haven't used it in a while but not a bad quality plug IMO.  I got joy with it on some acoustic tracks. Similar to Waves Aphex aural exciter. $14.72 tax and title sounds good to me.

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

bitflipper


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 

Now there's some sound buying logic that I can actually use...

As my Mrs always rightly says "You must already have more stuff than you could ever need" now I can say I'm letting fate make the decisions, and who could argue with that?

I'm looking intently now into all the things that fate might want me to have...