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Applications In live performance or in club installations, the Stereo Vitalizer
Jack is a powerful ally in maintaining speech intelligibility under
difficult conditions. It is also of great benefit in systems designed
to play recorded music because the illusion of loudness can be
maintained at lower absolute SPLs. This could be particularly
beneficial with the introduction of new noise level legislation. On
the subjective side, the Stereo Vitalizer Jack helps produce a
detailed, tight sound, even from indifferent speaker systems
giving an improvement in perceived audio quality.
The Stereo Vitalizer Jack can be of great value when mixing
under time-pressure. You can almost leave the onboard EQs flat
and create the FOH sound with the Stereo Vitalizer Jack in the
master inserts.
As in other areas, the Stereo Vitalizer Jack can be used to
sharpen and enrichen dialogue, even when the microphone
placement is less than optimum as is often the case when filming
due to the need to keep the mic out of shot. Music soundtracks
benefit in the ways already described for audio-only applications
and the fact that the Stereo Vitalizer Jack is so quick to set up can
save a lot of wasted time spent tuning multi-band equalisers.
Time-compressed audio can also be treated to restore the lack
of timbre so often caused by such intensive processing. This is
particularly valid in the case of vocal narratives as even a relatively
small amount of time-compression or expansion can dramatically
compromise the sound quality.
On the post production work on Spike Lee´s "Malcom X" movie
the voice of Denzel Washington playing Malcolm X was treated
with the Vitalizer for dramatical reasons:
“We wanted to make sure that there was a dramatic quality diffe-
rence between the voice-over and the sync dialog," Fleischman adds,
offering a mixer´s view. "You try to find a balance between two center
mics then balance that with whatever you´re using from left-right
pair. We then treated it with the SPL VITALIZER, a psychoacoustic
equalizer. It brings a lot more presence to the upper end of the spec-
trum and a very deep low end so that the voice sounds full.”
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