[LAU] Pro Audio? OT rant.

Brett McCoy idragosani at gmail.com
Thu Dec 27 23:36:06 UTC 2012


On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Neil <djdualcore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>> I'm only surprised you didn't mention Aural Exciters, which used to be
>> (don't know if they still are) used to add high frequency information
>> (distortion) to the sound to make it more "exciting". As I recall (It's
>> been a while) they tried to add even harmonic distortion.
>
> That is a great example!  I forgot about those.  BBE and Aphex still
> sell a lot of those, I think.

There are even LV2 plugins that provide aural excitement (the Calf
plugins provide one, for instance), although you can somewhat emulate
it with a HPF and light distortion on that that filter.

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Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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