Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hmmm.. :::the Skeptic in me jumps forward and grabs the keyboard:::! :)

I've have never been able to get anyone to explain to me what *exactly*
an Aphex Aural Exciter does (now if it was Oral exciter, I might begin to
guess :D). I've seen the product from BBE and I've talked to some of the
sales folks that sell them and some of the true-believers that use them,
but they always seem to use words that leave me queasy. Descriptive terms
such as "Punch", "Depth", "Penetration", "Presence". Nice words all, but
I don't know what type of a circuit gives "Presence"? How many "Presence
Units" per sq-inch does it add exactly? Is it measured in
"Mili-Presence", "Prese-watts?" or what? :) I understand EQ, compression,
limiters, gates, flanger, delay, distortion, clipping etc. But no one has
been able to tell just what the silly thing *does* without resorting to
these very subjective terms.

From descriptions of users/sales people, my best guess is that it does
some type of reverse-compression (bass freq between 50 and 90 hz that
comes in at +1 db is gained on a curve to increase the dynamic range of
bass, oposite of a compressor) or some type of psychic-acoustic phase
inversion weirdness (I'm also dubious on the ROI when giving money to a
psychic of any type!) So, in short, does anyone with an *electronics* or
*acoustic engineering* background have a decent explanation of what the
point of the module is, or it another example of the much-coveted Marshal
Amp that goes to "11"? :)

Vern

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Claudio Ortiz said:
>    Try an Aphex Aural Exciter w/Big Bottom.
> Claudio Ortiz