BBE is really useful, and it does add some high end, but it is also a phase correction processor for dynamic speakers (i.e. anything other than electrostatic speakers).
You can get a technical description elsewhere, but it causes the low and high end to come out at the same time rather than there being a lag which dynamic speakers cause. I find this increases presence and makes the midrange recede, so I always boost the mids when I use BBE.
It does fill the role of an exciter in a way, but doesn't really sound the same as exciters, which generate a kind of artificial high frequency content by adding distortion.
best Exciter
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- KVRAF
- 1933 posts since 29 Apr, 2005 from Beyond all space, time, and dimension.
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- KVRAF
- 19156 posts since 13 Feb, 2003 from Vancouver, Canada
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- KVRian
- 1394 posts since 28 Mar, 2002 from Austria
IMO, the best software exciter (old, but good) is still:
DSP-FX Aural Activator
DSP-FX Aural Activator
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- KVRAF
- 19156 posts since 13 Feb, 2003 from Vancouver, Canada
WowPeterL wrote:IMO, the best software exciter (old, but good) is still:
DSP-FX Aural Activator
I used to use those a lot! You know, I just don't get that comapany; they have great-sounding plug-ins, and they had a leg up on the Direct-X market nice and early, but they haven't done squat with them in years (the installer recommends win95!). They could've been contenders! Their website is still up - what gives?