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What is excitation in audio mastering? Follow along as iZotope Education Director and professional mastering engineer Jonathan Wyner explores the use of exciters, saturation, and other non-linear kinds of signal processing used in audio mastering. Learn about the notion of color and vibe in excitation, train your ear to examples of excitation, and find out how to use the Exciter module in iZotope Ozone Pro to get the sound you’re looking for.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:51 What is excitation in audio?
2:32 Vibe and uses of excitation
3:44 Exciters and EQ
4:39 Aliasing with excitation
5:35 Exciter module in Ozone Pro: oversampling and excitation modes
6:35 Ear training: hear excitation in audio
9:14 Hearing different excitation modes in Ozone Pro
11:01 Applying excitation in a single band to create presence and focus in the midrange
12:20 Applying excitation in Mid/Side mode to accentuate the presence of the edges
13:12 Excitation vs. saturation
15:05 Outro
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