Vendo previo BBE Bmax, en rack 19" REBAJA!!
Publicado: 18 Jul 2013, 12:47
Como estoy en el dique seco (y creo que por una laarrrga temporada) y voy detrás de un Ibanez Musician he decidido deshacerme de material de mi arsenal. Le toca a mi previo BBE MAX:
Así es tal como lo llevo ahora. Está nuevo, nuevo, con tres bolos a los sumo y algunos ensayos. Conserva aun la garantia Thomman y va en su caja, con toda su documentación. PAra saber algo de él, mejor os dejo un comentario que figura en TalkBass sobre este previo del ingeniero que lo co-diseñó, Judd Levison:
im the guy who specified the BMAX, and the BMAX-T, and produced it with BBE's chief engineer, who, by the way, is a well-known, well-respected tube and analog maven.
when we had the idea to resurrect the bass preamp idea, BBE had the ill-fated 383 some years earlier, i went on a quest to see what bass players loved sonically. two things were generally apparent, metal grungers aside (sorry guys), everyone wanted deep warm tones...tight, but warm and down in the 30Hz to 60 Hz range to match the fundamental of a kick drum, but, also, fast transient response and hard top end.
with respect to the deep and warm, almost universally bass players pointed me to Don Wickersham's Dual Showman-preamp-on-steroids inspired Alembic F2-B. i sought out players and friends that owned them and listened...what a mind-**** the low end of these things is. like nothing i'd ever heard before.
with respect to the fast, tight and hard, i had two friends using Glockenklang Soul-Os and even before this project i was amazed at the crystal clarity of these things. transient response so fast it could give you whiplash and a hard top that you could bounce a quarter off of.
with these two tonalities in my head i went back to Paul and said it has to have the depth of the Alembic and the attack of the Glock...and off we went.
the BMAX being the solid state version and the BMAX-T having an identical front-end as the Alembic/Dual-Showman, they are both fantastic but, as you can imagine, the solid-state version was more versatile and not as round-sounding as the T.
the T uses a top-grade Groove Tubes 12AX7 in a Groove Tubes supplied socket and is wired to the circuit board using solid silver, teflon-coated leads. it has a custom made toroidal transformer in it's power supply and Jensen's top DI transformer in it's direct out on the back (the same transformer used in Record Plant's, Radial's and BBE's Jensen transformer DI's).
the compressor in both is an optical compressor, known for their fast but relatively soft-knee response. actually, as you crank it up the threshold goes down and the ratio goes up. it gets pretty radical after about 2 o'clock.
the passive eq is flat at 2-10-2, at least that's what the Audio Precision told us...always use your ears though!
the solid-state version, for the price, IMHO is the best sounding preamp you can own for under $1500.00.
the front-ends of both were pretty sensitive in the beginning...we didn't consider the very hot output of some of the 18v active electronics basses, the 9v active G&L L-2000s were what we were using primarily to demo and voice these things (after all, BBE owns G&L and these were readily available).
funny though, our graphic artist friend is a bass player and he brought his '65 P-Bass around a couple of times and that thing just massacred the front-end, we sort of wrote it off as an anomaly at the the time cuz it sounded so good with the L-2000s and the SB-2s.
we mod'd the ones people had a problem with free of charge with 24 hour turn around and freight paid and made a running change after the first production to pad down the input.
the crackle was a production problem in part of one run...the supplier had not connected a ground lead...about 100 units went out this way. we, of course, fixed for free everyone we knew about. sorry if you got one, BBE will always fix this for you for free if you just call them and let them know.
that's it, everything you ever wanted to know about the BMAX and a few things you didn't give a **** about.
btw, the original working name for the BMAX was FREEBASS...they just wouldn't let me do it no matter how hard i pushed!!!
peace
Aquí lo tenéis. Por 150 € en casa.
Saludos
Así es tal como lo llevo ahora. Está nuevo, nuevo, con tres bolos a los sumo y algunos ensayos. Conserva aun la garantia Thomman y va en su caja, con toda su documentación. PAra saber algo de él, mejor os dejo un comentario que figura en TalkBass sobre este previo del ingeniero que lo co-diseñó, Judd Levison:
im the guy who specified the BMAX, and the BMAX-T, and produced it with BBE's chief engineer, who, by the way, is a well-known, well-respected tube and analog maven.
when we had the idea to resurrect the bass preamp idea, BBE had the ill-fated 383 some years earlier, i went on a quest to see what bass players loved sonically. two things were generally apparent, metal grungers aside (sorry guys), everyone wanted deep warm tones...tight, but warm and down in the 30Hz to 60 Hz range to match the fundamental of a kick drum, but, also, fast transient response and hard top end.
with respect to the deep and warm, almost universally bass players pointed me to Don Wickersham's Dual Showman-preamp-on-steroids inspired Alembic F2-B. i sought out players and friends that owned them and listened...what a mind-**** the low end of these things is. like nothing i'd ever heard before.
with respect to the fast, tight and hard, i had two friends using Glockenklang Soul-Os and even before this project i was amazed at the crystal clarity of these things. transient response so fast it could give you whiplash and a hard top that you could bounce a quarter off of.
with these two tonalities in my head i went back to Paul and said it has to have the depth of the Alembic and the attack of the Glock...and off we went.
the BMAX being the solid state version and the BMAX-T having an identical front-end as the Alembic/Dual-Showman, they are both fantastic but, as you can imagine, the solid-state version was more versatile and not as round-sounding as the T.
the T uses a top-grade Groove Tubes 12AX7 in a Groove Tubes supplied socket and is wired to the circuit board using solid silver, teflon-coated leads. it has a custom made toroidal transformer in it's power supply and Jensen's top DI transformer in it's direct out on the back (the same transformer used in Record Plant's, Radial's and BBE's Jensen transformer DI's).
the compressor in both is an optical compressor, known for their fast but relatively soft-knee response. actually, as you crank it up the threshold goes down and the ratio goes up. it gets pretty radical after about 2 o'clock.
the passive eq is flat at 2-10-2, at least that's what the Audio Precision told us...always use your ears though!
the solid-state version, for the price, IMHO is the best sounding preamp you can own for under $1500.00.
the front-ends of both were pretty sensitive in the beginning...we didn't consider the very hot output of some of the 18v active electronics basses, the 9v active G&L L-2000s were what we were using primarily to demo and voice these things (after all, BBE owns G&L and these were readily available).
funny though, our graphic artist friend is a bass player and he brought his '65 P-Bass around a couple of times and that thing just massacred the front-end, we sort of wrote it off as an anomaly at the the time cuz it sounded so good with the L-2000s and the SB-2s.
we mod'd the ones people had a problem with free of charge with 24 hour turn around and freight paid and made a running change after the first production to pad down the input.
the crackle was a production problem in part of one run...the supplier had not connected a ground lead...about 100 units went out this way. we, of course, fixed for free everyone we knew about. sorry if you got one, BBE will always fix this for you for free if you just call them and let them know.
that's it, everything you ever wanted to know about the BMAX and a few things you didn't give a **** about.
btw, the original working name for the BMAX was FREEBASS...they just wouldn't let me do it no matter how hard i pushed!!!
peace
Aquí lo tenéis. Por 150 € en casa.
Saludos