Recording: Tracking And Mixing - Aphex EX-BB 500 Owner's Manual

4.3 RECORDING: TRACKING AND MIXING

The Aural Exciter restores presence and clarity, improving transient
response of individual tracks or whole mixes. Increased harmonic
detail enables specific instruments to stand out in the mix, offering
a more "live" or spacious sound. Imaging is improved with an open
"airy" quality.
Any instrument, such as a guitar, processed through the Aural
Exciter circuit will have greater penetration, crispness and clarity.
Specific instruments pop out in the mix, giving the instrument its
own sonic identity without raising the volume of the instrument
in the mix.
Using Big Bottom on bass instruments tightens the sound, allow-
ing individual notes to be more articulated and recognizable. Big
Bottom provides more feeling, resembling a "live" sound.
In the recording studio, post production suite or similar environ-
ment, post processing of previously recorded sound tracks can
restore lost vibrancy and realism, even to the extent of saving dialog
or sound effects which were thought to be unusable. Instruments
and vocals can be made to stand out in the mix without substan-
tially increasing the mix levels or using equalization.
Use the Aural Exciter and Big Bottom in place of equalization
whenever possible.
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