[LAU] Exciter / Enhancer Plugin [WAS:] Linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 19, Issue 9

Fons Adriaensen fons at kokkinizita.net
Thu Sep 11 19:12:30 EDT 2008


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:36:26PM -0500, Reuben Martin wrote:

> Exciter has nothing to do with dynamics.

True.

> And not really anything to do with 
> distortion so much as harmonics.

Adding harmonics is distortion. It may not sound as
such if the harmonics you add were already present
but it still is distortion.

> You use a harmonics generator, cut the fundamental, and add in odd ordered 
> harmonics, with each successice odd harmonic going in opposite directions. 

What's the point of the 'opposite directions' (whatever
it means) ?

Ciao,

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FA

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