I have a mackie cfx12, 2mackie sm450's, and 1 mackie srs 1500 sub,,also using bbe882I( with xlr in and out), Lexicon mx200 using aux 2, gem sound echo using efx send and return. how do I hook this stuff up (make it simple please) thanks

Note: Some of us may know what each of those models represent. Other wise to assist
we need to know what each piece is i.e. What is the bbe882? What is the Lexicon MX200
What is the Mackie CFX12? etc. Otherwise we would have to go to the manufacturers site and look up this stuff. BTW I do know what the SM450's are and the SRS1500 is.
This is not intended offend just assist someone who is trying to help with the question
of hooking it all together. If I had all this stuff in front of me I could hook it all up.

The BBE 882 is a Sonic Maximizer - sound enhancement, kind of like a basic eq, but more of a frequency re-alignment processor.

Okay, I have to bite on that technical term. What is a "frequency re-alignment processor?"

Thanks for sharing your inventory of knowledge. That The BBE 882 Sonic Maximizer is
a new gadget I haven't heard of. Me being a technician I am interested in an effects
processor that can change a persons voice to sound like someone else. I heard the one
that is in a Yamaha psr 7000 on U tube. I'll try to find the link to it on U Tube.

It takes the highs/mids/lows & adds a time shift to each frequency group by adding a slight delay to each group (lows up to 150hz, mids 150hz-1200 & the highs from1200 hz on up) allowing them project (the frequency waves) from the speakers more efficiently for the listener - essentially re-aligning the frequencies to come out more natural to the speaker. This is how BBE used to describe it anyway in an old pamphlet I had on the 422.

That The BBE 882 Sonic Maximizer is
a new gadget I haven't heard of.

Why is that good? Speaker companies making high-end powered or integrated (DSP, amps, speakers sold together) PA systems spend a lot of time and money getting their various drivers to produce a coherent wavefront for the listener even though some drivers may be deeper within cabinets or waveguides than others.

I don't doubt that is what you read in BBE marketing materials ... but I do question why delaying some passbands would be good. How does the box decide when it is appropriate? How much delay can it add? Surely not much or you would notice the delay going on and off as an audible pitch change in the program material.

Hi Lonman & Hank Singer & everyone else. . It took me a while but I found the demo and more. Here's the demo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXeE2YZL ... re=related
Yamaha calls it Vocal Harmony. Some one posted that another company makes a better one, the company is TC-Helicon. I am sure that's not all of the rest of the story.
I don't know about other companies products but Yamaha has true Karaoke on some of
their keyboards, it even has VGA or maybe SVGA output I didn't check all that out yet.
They also have direct connection to songs to download from their site, probably not free. So I hope this solves the mystery, as Watson would say.
Lynn B. retired technician

Well here is the manual for the one that I originally referred to.
http://www.bbesound.com/pdfs/422_manual.pdf
It's not alot of delay, we're talking milliseconds. Page 3 explains what it does & how it works. "Frequency realigner" is my own coinage, but that is in essence what it does. It actually would probably be considered more in the aural exciter catagory.

I was going to post a long rant on the Sonic Maximizer, but I had to erase it and keep it simple. A/B that thing vs the original content. Sometimes it will sound a little better if you pay close attention. Sometimes it will sound a lot worse. Why bother with it?

And a Sonic Maximizer certainly does do "something" to live program material. What, I don't know, but I saw a band last night that had one inserted on the main mix. It sounded like (@$%&#!). The guitar was shrill and piercing and painful at times, and the vocals were buried. Bypassing it was a large improvement.

I have heard the Sonic Maximizer can be useful as an insert on a single channel. This may be true, but I won't use one on a whole mix anytime soon, or on recorded tracks.

My suggestion would be skip the BBE all together, run the main outs from your CFX-12 to the L and R inputs on the Sub, then run the L and R high pass outputs from the sub to the inputs on your SRM-450s. I don't recommend using the Sub out on the CFX-12, it is crossed over at 75Hz which is lower than I'd recommend for this setup. Let the SRS do a little more work, it's internal crossover is at 120Hz and with the 450's that a better point IMHO.

A couple other notes to correct some things that were said here that were inaccurate. EFX2 is shared with the internal effects on the CFX-12, not EFX1. Also, using EFX2 sends and returns does not bypass the internal effects unit. If you enable the internal effects and have effects being returned through the EFX2 return, the signals will be summed (mixed together) so you actually have the opportunity for up to 3 effects units that way (EFX1, EFX2 (Internal) and EFX2 (external)).

And a Sonic Maximizer certainly does do "something" to live program material. What, I don't know, but I saw a band last night that had one inserted on the main mix. It sounded like <span style=font-size:10px><i>(@$%&#!)</i></span>. The guitar was shrill and piercing and painful at times, and the vocals were buried. Bypassing it was a large improvement.

I have heard the Sonic Maximizer can be useful as an insert on a single channel. This may be true, but I won't use one on a whole mix anytime soon, or on recorded tracks.