BBE Acoustimax Sonic Maximizer

If your wonder why I've blogged three times in one day, well, its because its my day off and I've been busy.

Here is one of my favorite pedals, The BBE Acoustimas Sonic Maximizer. I know that it sounds cheesy, but it really does the job quite well. The first thing I thought when I saw the pedal was, "Thats for an acoustic?" I mean, you'd think that a pedal with that many knobs to turn would be for a tone-tweaking gear-head lead guitarist, but you're wrong. Its really a DI box with the works plus a sonic maximizer thrown in for good measure.

The best view of this thing is from the rear. Its like a swiss army knife, safe for the cork screw. Its got your Ground life and DI Out, phase, pad like you might expect to find on a regular DI but it also features and extra line out, FX loop and tuner out. For tone purist that don't have a tuner with analog true by-pass then this gives you an option get that tuner out of the chain.

The only down side is that it doesn't fit in your case. I mean, it needs a case of its own. This thing is large and heavy. But its about the only thing you really need to carry with you, besides your guitar that is. The sounds are great and the features can't be beat.

Another reason I like this thing so much is that I got it cheap. I paid less than half price for mine and it was new. Although I think it may have been a 2nd, or remanufacture. I started having trouble with it powering off unexpectedly. I thought it could be a short in the PS but turns out that the ribbon on the circuit had broke right at the adaptor port. A little extra solder and its as good as new, well almost. I have to switch the jacks around. When I reassembled the pedal I switched them around. The inputs in the output kinda of thing, but it back up and working, thus the reason for the post.