Recent content by judd levison

thanks for the gut shot. that's my baby.:) paul, the engineer at BBE, has a less-is-more approach and we tried hard to keep things clear of one another and he made the circuit board traces really wide, like a big piece of wire. also note that the white wires going from the circuit board to...

perfect, Rick. sounds like you found your instruments voice. if you're looking for just that extra touch of presence, i would really encourage you to engage the sonic maximizer, leave the "low contour" off and add some of the "process" between 9o'clock and 11o'clock. just give it a...

exactly, and, fwiw, the di circuit in the solid-state BMAX is identical to the BBE DI100X direct box. further, because it's that Jensen cookbook circuit i mentioned before, the BMAX-T uses the identical circuit to the BBE DI1000

:eek:that's why i'm not an engineer! thank you sir! i stand (sit) corrected.:)

hmmm... interesting. as you know from being an amp designer yourself, the "volume" controls on an amplifier are actually just input attenuators. if the signal coming from the gain stage prior is clean, then the amplified signal should also be clean. of course, the output of the preamp...

LOL! if you could have changed the nature of earth's elements and made 19 inches actually 4 inches longer, you would have had a fully parametric eq!:cool: you're right on regarding the eq settings too....that was the idea of the para-mids, to make adjustments for different spaces without...

i went online and tried to find a technical definition for passive reactive and inductive EQ circuits, which i believe is what this "tone stack" circuit technically is called. it's simply the nature of these types of designs that when you turn a knob and change the value of that passive...

this is why i get out of bed each morning. thanks. enjoy that thing! please use the Sonic Maximizer judiciously (deliciously?) and keep the knobs on the lee side of the 12 o'clock position. but a little of that 50Hz and 5kHz bump from the "low contour" and the "process" knobs will add some...

just out of curiosity, since the amplifier is the last gain stage, why would turning up your power amp distort your speakers as opposed to turning up the preamp? i assume the power amp is simply amplifying whatever signal the preamp is providing. garbage in-garbage out. no big thing, just...

i always felt BBE was misunderstood, the VP of sales and mktg and i really tried hard to engage the players and make stuff they would love. during my time there i attempted to make products that offered higher than expected value for the dough. i have an NAD preamplifier in my home stereo...

absolutely true! but not just the bass band, all the bands interact with one another.

...and that's why there's pantera and brian eno!! thanks...

can't really use it for applications where shielding is necessary, like line level cable or mic cable. for the speakers i had paul make me a SPEAKON end'd pair of ROMEX cables.

i'll rectify that if i'm ever able!!

thanks, i picked those red knobs. those and the 1/4" faceplate make that thing! the low end is a real pants shaker. my demo rig was a QSC PLX2402 driving two GLOCK 2X10' cabs, and i was using solid-core ROMEX wire (12 gauge) between the amp and the cabs. we measured a lot of cable around...