BBE Sonic Maximizer problem

[Plastelina]

Hi,

I try to get a demo of BBE S M to work in Ableton Live 4.0.4 and FL Studio 5, with no sucess. In Live the program will not see the dll files, whereas in FL it can see the program, but when trying to open it says it lacks the c...dll file. Well, it is there, so I don't find any oteer solution that BBE is fragily with what hosts it can be used inside. Is this wrong, or might I do something wrong? I run a P4 3.4 with 3GB ram and XP pro, and have tens of hosts and effects without any problems.

[Jos]

I think BBE is a DX effect and not VST. Live (and FL?) only work with VST.

[Kriminal]

Yes, try DX, it works better. VST does work, but DX seems to work better.

[Jos]

Just looked it up, BBE is both VST and DirectX, but maybe you only installed DirectX and that won't work with Live.

[skOre]

FL works with dx too

[Teksonik]

The BBE demo works in FL Studio here.

[Kriminal]

BTW, i cant recommend this plug enough, it just does something that makes the mastering chain perfect

[mn]

All I can tell you is I have the BBE SM, and it works fine as DX and VST in all my hosts (whichever they support) - Sonar 4PE, FL5 PE, enregyXT, Project5, Traktion 1... maybe it's just something about the demo. At the very least, uninstall, reboot, reinstall.

Also, a suggestion. BBE does sound sweet - I won't argue that (hey my $$ TV has a BBE sound setting). But consider demoing iZotope Ozone. It's about 3 times more expensive but it's a lot more useful and flexible, IMO. Not because it sounds better but because it has seperate effects sections you can tweak and about a billion presets compared to 5 or 6.

[edelweiss]

Just one question ( may be irrelevant, but ) where did you get the demo..??

[Plastelina]

Thanks for all the rplies. I don't know where I got the demo - think it was some french link. I found a dozen of demoes which will not install, but this one did. But Live does not see it, and FL can't start it (does see it). I went for the upper shelves with Waves Naive Bundle. Sounds superb.

[THK]

Just one question ( may be irrelevant, but ) where did you get the demo..??

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=BBE ... uche&meta=

[useruseruser]

BTW, i cant recommend this plug enough, it just does something that makes the mastering chain perfect

Did you know, that it falls under the categoty Exciters?



(Warning: Excessive usage can make the result sounding wrong. As longer you listen to it, as more your ears addapt the sound and as more your hands wana tweak the "Highs" knob to the max!)

My tip: (Cause I don't use it anymore for mastering directly since I own a license of Ozone - which has a multiband exciter.)

It sounds amazing on all kind of vocal! and solistic instrument tracks (i.e. guitarrs and strings). So it is never the less a *must have*.

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[dvdvelde]

I would skip the BBE and not use it, its completely fattique to me...

[kritikon]

(Warning: Excessive usage can make the result sounding wrong. As longer you listen to it, as more your ears addapt the sound and as more your hands wana tweak the "Highs" knob to the max!)

As can any exciter.

Personally I prefer something like the BBE...because it only does one thing, it's more likely to make you try to get your mix as good as you can to start with. Ozone etc have so many FX included, that unless you really know what you're doing can make a complete bugger out of a mix...it can also make people lazy and rely on Ozone to sweeten the mix instead of sweetening the mix where it should be done - in the mixing.

Incidentally, I used to use the BBE plugin...but recently I've gone back to using the h/w version. The plugin is very good, but I don't know if it's in the circuitry or what, but the h/w just has that something extra...I don't quite know what the extra is, but the plugin sounds just a tad flat compared to the h/w. The plugin certainly adds some magical fairy dust, but the h/w makes it more organic sounding too...maybe organic is the wrong word, but the whole thing gels together, whereas the plugin still sounds digital somehow. When I first used the plugin, I thought it was identical, but I've definitely changed my mind on that one.

Having said that, the enhancer in Ozone is one of its strong points - I don't much like the rest of it, but the enhancer does it's thing well. Shame about the crappy GUI.

Enhancers are absolutely a thing of personal taste though - probably more so than any other FX.

[kritikon]

Fattique?

Quoi?