Welcome to ÜberProAudio - your definitive source for all things Pro Audio. Learn about cool music gear, instruments, studio recording tips, musicians, and much more! Checkout our famous "Who Plays What" section to find out what your favorite musicians use for gear in their rigs.
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Crazy Expensive Gear
Would You Buy it?
This little section of the site is for crazy expensive gear we find. Guess how much it costs, then Click the pic for more info. Then ask yourself - Would you buy it?
It's not only a Fender guitar - it's artwork! :
How much of a Kirk Hammett fan are you...?:
Who said Martins aren't expensive...
Worth more or less than your car:
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-We are working on getting new gear images for the site. We will be contacting roadies, photographers, and everyone we can find to get permission to post cool photos to the site. If you are at a concert and can take a pic of a musician's gear and give us permission to display it, please contact us via the contact form. Thanks!
The BBE Sonic Maximizer effect Plug-In is one of our favorite effects for recording. Adding it to just about any track seems to automagically turn that track into something hot. You have to try this out for yourself, and for the low price, it's worth it!
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The BBE Sonic Maximizer Plug-In is a new software version of BBE's award-winning Sonic Maximizer that features revised code to support more platforms including Mac, PC VST, and Direct X. The Sonic Maximizer Plug-In allows unlimited user-definable presets, realtime preset changes, and full MIDI implementation. It's like having a rack full of the 882i units at your command for processing multiple tracks. The Sonic Maximzeer Plug-In can add brilliance, depth, detail, and definition to your music in many PC audio software applications that accept Direct X plug-ins, from multi-track recording to sampling to remixing.
The BBE Process "What it Is"
Loudspeakers have difficulty working with the electronic signals supplied by an amplifier. These difficulties cause such major phase and amplitude distortion that the sound reproduced by the speaker differs significantly from the sound produced by the original source. In the past, these problems proved unsolvable and were thus relegated to a position of secondary importance in audio system design. However, phase and amplitude integrity is essential to accurate sound reproduction. Research shows that the information which the listener translates into the recognizable characteristics of a live performance are intimately tied into complex time and amplitude relationships between the fundamental and harmonic components of a given musical note or sound. These relationships define a sound's sound . When these complex relationships pass through a speaker, the proper order is lost. The higher frequencies are delayed. A lower frequency may reach the listener's ear first or perhaps simultaneously with that of a higher frequency. In some cases, the fundamental components may be so time-shifted that they reach the listener's ear ahead of some or all of the harmonic components. This change in the phase and amplitude relationship on the harmonic and fundamental frequencies is technically called envelope distortion. The listener perceives this loss of sound integrity in the reproduced sound as muddy and smeared. In the extreme, it can become difficult to tell the difference between musical instruments, for example, an oboe and a clarinet. BBE Sound, Inc. conducted extensive studies of numerous speaker systems over a ten year period. With this knowledge, it became possible to identify the characteristics of an ideal speaker and to distill the corrections necessary to return the fundamental and harmonic frequency structures to their correct order. While there are differences among various speaker designs in the magnitude of their correction, the overall pattern of correction needed is remarkably consistent. The BBE Process is so unique that 42 patents have been awarded by the U.S. Patent Office.