LePetite Excite

[Creativemind]

Hi All!

Just downloaded a free VST I found on Plug-in Boutique called LePetite Excite. An exciter.

Can anyone explain what an exciter does? I've provided a pic if anyone can explain this VST as there's no documentation.

Is it kind of a saturation device. Is the Low parameter, low harmonics? and the High parameter, high harmonics?

Thanks!

[aeox]

If you take a listen to what it's doing when you change the parameters it sounds like it splits the frequency into bands(not sure how many) and "low" saturates the low band and high saturates the high band. For the low parameter, it's probably doing something similar to the "Keep Low" setting on Saturation Knob. There would be some parallel processing happening as well. It could be doing other stuff, maybe the low parameter also does a low cut and bump? Or maybe the high frequency has some EQ applied, but it doesn't sound like it to me

[motuscott]

gotta say, great plug in name.

[NekujaK]

Exciters typically generate additional harmonics for a given audio range - hence the High and Low knobs. The resulting sound is brighter and/or richer, but if you dial in too much, it will sound unpleasantly harsh or muddy. LePetite Excite is one of the better freebie exciters out there.

[Loque]

Sooooo...i can create a similar effect with a parallel channel and a tilt eq before it goes into the saturation device?

[selig]

Sooooo...i can create a similar effect with a parallel channel and a tilt eq before it goes into the saturation device?

Not quite.
Try instead to use a stereo imager to split the signal on the parallel channel, then add saturation only to the high signal while running the low signal dry.
Otherwise you may end up adding high end AND high saturation.
For example, if you just add a HP filter and saturation, you’re adding a bunch of high frequency energy to the signal.

A better way to think of it would be to add a band splitter/crossover to the main channel and not use a parallel channel. Now you have two channels, low frequency and high frequency. From here you can add saturation on either channel with a dry/wet control and on the high channel you’ll get a more “traditional” exciter effect.


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[Loque]

Sooooo...i can create a similar effect with a parallel channel and a tilt eq before it goes into the saturation device?

Not quite.
Try instead to use a stereo imager to split the signal on the parallel channel, then add saturation only to the high signal while running the low signal dry.
Otherwise you may end up adding high end AND high saturation.
For example, if you just add a HP filter and saturation, you’re adding a bunch of high frequency energy to the signal.

A better way to think of it would be to add a band splitter/crossover to the main channel and not use a parallel channel. Now you have two channels, low frequency and high frequency. From here you can add saturation on either channel with a dry/wet control and on the high channel you’ll get a more “traditional” exciter effect.


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Ok, thanks. I will keep this in mind.

[Creativemind]

So generally speaking, an exciter (although not in every case) is a saturation device that only works on the high end?

[selig]

So generally speaking, an exciter (although not in every case) is a saturation device that only works on the high end?

Yes, generally speaking the saturation (called “harmonic synthesis” “harmonic generation” and other catch phrases) is the basic foundation of the effect, only added to the higher frequencies and often added in parallel with the original signal.


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