Instruction Manual
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Excitement and is renown in its own right. Still, Aphex
offers both effects together because, as powerful as
they are alone, they are doubly powerful when used
together.
The Aural Exciter - What Is It?
Once sound is recorded, mixed, and reproduced it
has lost something vital. We all sense that, especially
when we are working at playing or producing music.
Part of what gets lost is harmonics.
We can sense the slightest loss of realism when we
listen, even as our ears lose acuity with age. That’s
because our brain is constantly interpreting and
adapting to our hearing. It’s a process called “psy-
choacoustics”. When small sonic details are lost, we
can still interpret the sound, but it gets harder as
more sonic “cues” (tiny embedded harmonic details)
are lost through electronics or other media.
The Aural Exciter convincingly recreates minute har-
monic details of sound. It’s true, other manufactur-
ers are now offering harmonics effects that are in
some ways similar to our original Aural Exciter of the
1970’s, but only Aphex has the patented “Transient
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