Mono Aural Exciter and Big Bottom Processor
THE NEW APHEX EXBB 500 is a 500 Series version of the popular Aphex Aural Exciter and Big Bottom processors. Small, portable, interchangeable and easy to use, the new EXBB 500 provides the performance of Aphexs legendary EXCITER in a mono module, allowing artists and engineers to configure the exact number of channels needed, in a convenient and affordable way. Aphex 500 Series modules are designed to fit in industry-standard 500 Series racks from API, Radial Engineering, A Designs, Empirical Labs and Tonelux. A rack full of 500 Series modules creates a custom and portable solution with devices an engineer can easily reconfigure by simply swapping out modules as needed.
Legendary Audio Enhancement
Close to a million Aphex Aural Exciters have been used in recording studios, broadcast facilities, concert arenas, musicians equipment racks, DJ systems, houses of worship, auditoriums, theaters and sports venues. The Aural Exciters patented technology has often been imitated but never duplicated. It remains one of the leading audio enhancement devices worldwide for voice, music, communications and more.
Aural Exciter
For decades the Aural Exciters patented technology has been the audio professionals secret weapon; a powerful way to improve and enhance sonic quality more naturally than with equalization. Users always comment on how it opens the sound making it more spacious and clear. For individual sources or entire mixes, the Aural Exciter brings out detail, clarity and imaging that elevates the source without adding unwanted level or inducing distortion into the signal chain.
The EXBB 500′s Aural Exciter offers discrete Tune, Harmonics and Mix controls, enabling users to fine tune the specific performance desired. For vocals and spoken dialog, the Aural Exciter increases intelligibility as it highlights the edges of consonants providing better cues of the language. For individual instruments, it adds punch and presence without changing the instruments tonal character. And on mixes, it adds presence, airiness and detail. The Aural Exciter is also an ideal solution for breathing life into bit rate reduced recordings and other compressed audio files.
Optical Big Bottom
The Optical Big Bottom provides deep, powerful low-frequency punch, without the unwanted level boost that comes from adding traditional equalization. Music benefits are deeper, more resonant, detailed bass with tighter articulation, extending low frequency power and spectrum for a richer, more percussive sound even at very low volume levels all without the build-up or driver-damaging tendencies of bass EQ. The EXBB 500′s Big Bottom features Tune, Drive and Mix controls, enabling users to dynamically enhance low frequencies. The Big Bottom adds a deep, powerful low-frequency punch, without the unwanted level boost that comes from adding traditional EQ.
APPLICATIONS
Recording, Project and Post Production Studios
The Aural Exciter was born in the recording studio, and its legacy is founded on thousands of legendary recordings bearing the unmistakable Aphex sound. From speech to vocals to music, artists, engineers and producers have used the Aural Exciter to bring out detail, clarity and richness. Its at the heart of great sounding voice-overs and mixes in rock, pop, jazz, classical and every other genre of modern music. And youll find the Aural Exciter in TV and film post-production suites the world over.
Live Sound, House of Worship And More
The EXBB 500′s Aural Exciter and Optical Big Bottom provide all of the same benefits to live sound, House of Worship, communications and public address systems.
Aphex Smart Circuits
The Aural Exciter and Big Bottom are smart circuits, analyzing the audio signal in real-time, in order to provide the optimal amount of processing required for the given moment in the signal, regardless of signal or file type and quality. And unlike an EQ, the Aural Exciters harmonic generator does not boost the signals output level, maintaining clear undistorted signal, maintaining a clear and balanced sound all without influencing the Big Bottoms smart processor. Reading the audio signal and adjusting in real-time is the secret to maximum performance for any audio or recording system.
Experience Aphex Now In 500 Series Size
Over three decades of research, development and refinement have kept Aphex technologies at the cutting edge. The EXBB 500′s Aural Exciter and Big Bottom patented technologies will impress even the most demanding listeners with greater detail, intelligible and airy voices and richer music resulting in audio that is better balanced, more articulate, fuller and, simply put, more live sounding all without adding gain or stealing amplifier power.
The new Aphex EXBB 500 features the no-compromise sonic performance Aphex is known for and uses only the highest quality materials, components, close tolerance fit and finish and durable construction
SPECS
Operating Level: +4dBu
Input Type: Transformerless, active balanced
Input Impedance: 40KΩ
Nominal Input Level: +4dBu
Maximum Input Level: +24dBu
Output Impedance: 110Ω
Nominal Input Level: +4dBu
Maximum Input Level: +24dBu
Frequency Response: +.05dB 10Hz 38kHz
Dynamic Range: 120dB
THD: 10Hz 22kHz @ max output, .0003%
IMD: 10Hz 22kHz @ max output, .0007%
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| Product | SKU | Qty |
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| Mono Aural Exciter and Big Bottom Processor | 388758 |
