Excitation in Audio Mastering | Are You Listening? Season 3, Episode 2

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What is excitation in audio mastering? Follow along as iZotope Education Director and professional mastering engineer Jonathan Wyner explores the use of exciters, saturation, and other non-linear kinds of signal processing used in audio mastering. Learn about the notion of color and vibe in excitation, train your ear to examples of excitation, and find out how to use the Exciter module in iZotope Ozone Pro to get the sound you’re looking for.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:51 What is excitation in audio?
2:32 Vibe and uses of excitation
3:44 Exciters and EQ
4:39 Aliasing with excitation
5:35 Exciter module in Ozone Pro: oversampling and excitation modes
6:35 Ear training: hear excitation in audio
9:14 Hearing different excitation modes in Ozone Pro
11:01 Applying excitation in a single band to create presence and focus in the midrange
12:20 Applying excitation in Mid/Side mode to accentuate the presence of the edges
13:12 Excitation vs. saturation
15:05 Outro
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@Jaredkfjones 3 жыл бұрын

I could listen to him all day. This is gold.

@Genital.Wartzenegger 2 жыл бұрын

Rewatching all the seasons and man there’s so much more gold here after a few extra years of listening experience.

@PereRevert 3 жыл бұрын

Jonathan, you are such a great educator, no other tutorials comes close to yours. Keep posting these, master !

@platterjockey 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad Isotope started the second season. This is the stuff i'm interested in.

@harry2house536 3 жыл бұрын

and they also started the 3rd. season ☺

@platterjockey 3 жыл бұрын

@@harry2house536 Yeah, I mean the third. Heh!

@MikeDeanOfficials 3 жыл бұрын

I prefer the 4th season

@Beatsnmotivation 3 жыл бұрын

Well honestly is the guy that makes it interesting I seen some other people explain the same stuff and they don’t do as good of a job like he does he is amazing 👍🏻

@Ch1mereucheya 3 жыл бұрын

Wow...that's my Prof at Berklee. Nice one Jonathan. I loved your Audio Mastering module and I also enjoyed reading your book on mastering. Great teacher. The biggest lessons I learned from your course was understanding my listening environment, optimising it, hearing tests, studio calibration, and many other exercises that helped me optimize my studio environment and I am so immensely grateful to have enrolled.

@banyanmusicofficial8899 2 жыл бұрын

Drooling over those Weiss units

@danielfmyers 3 жыл бұрын

But where’s the link to buy the shirt??

@Skimatik_DnB 3 жыл бұрын

Are you talking ? I’m listening 👂 thanks to Jonathan and the whole team ✌️

@pumpernickelherbert 2 жыл бұрын

the graphics are really stepped up this season, so glad youre back for another!

@AutPen38 Жыл бұрын

I greatly enjoy learning with this video channel but I also want to give props to the writers of the articles on the Izotope website. I don't read them as often as I watch videos, but I always appreciate the clarity and brevity. (In times where we are oversaturated with info, much of which is waffle if not completely incorrect, I appreciate solid info and advice that is both authoritative but brief). You've gathered an excellent team in the education department so I just wanted to give thanks to everyone involved. Keep up the great work!

@spdhegde Жыл бұрын

He's simply outstanding. What a clarity in every word he speaks! It's a delight to learn from him. And I felt so good listening to his calm and composed demeanor.

@andrewmodel101 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this one. I typically do multi-band excitation and set all my bands to 50% and never go above an amount of 10 as this is one of the most powerful modules Ozone offers.

@AlbertNorris 3 жыл бұрын

Great info. Thanks. And... LOVE the T-shirt!!!

@russ6010 2 жыл бұрын

Love this series, thank you iZotope and Jonathan

@jjdagreat187 3 жыл бұрын

Keep the video's coming. I have learned a lot about ozone and it's capabilities watching this guy. Thank You

@Beatsnmotivation 3 жыл бұрын

I love how he explains everything! Keep up the amazing work! Very exciting technics 👍🏻✌🏼

@storiesreadaloud5635 3 жыл бұрын

He saves the best advice for the end. Great stuff

@danielebazzani 3 жыл бұрын

You are so good I just cannot stop listening when I start!

@ToddBeal 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Thanks for the clear explanation.

@axelknoxofficial 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely Brilliant honestly, so easy to understand and learn from Don, World class Products and also world class level education on how to use them expertly!

@themastroiannis 2 жыл бұрын

absolutely excellent tutorial! wow! so clear and knowledgeable! excellent song to show what an exciter..added retro-vibe (in this case) can add. thanks a ton.

@magnuslarsson7276 2 жыл бұрын

This is good stuff. Explained so well. Could listen for days

@redblock1382 3 жыл бұрын

Do not deserve this much yet they delivering top-notch content as always

@noizybrothers7303 3 жыл бұрын

I bet there are so many people missing out so much knowledge...tq izotope

@akshyaacharya 2 жыл бұрын

Its so interesting to hear you! So practical tips

@levkitkin8609 3 жыл бұрын

Dear Jonathan and the whole iZotope Team - thank you so much for bringing such a useful educational course! I have watched all of the episodes and I am looking forward to the next series, but if I may ask, I would be also very glad to find out what DC offset is and how it works, how to set dithering correctly for different genres up and the difference between mastering for 12" vinyl (which specificities there are). Thank you so much again!

@adityamaanas9470 3 жыл бұрын

Loving these!

@nirsayag 2 жыл бұрын

As usual, superb! Thanks.

@RogerioValgode 3 жыл бұрын

Another great Episode , Thanks! 👏👏🔥

@drwski6898 2 жыл бұрын

This video is absolutely phenomenal, thx u

@bboymac84 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome job Johnathan!!

@RonnieVaiArovo 3 жыл бұрын

I'm really Excited about this video 👍😜

@xeximaxi 2 жыл бұрын

exciters ! :) i am excited

@johnnyvegas2015 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff...thank you

@Superkeyruns 11 ай бұрын

This is really good!

@Redemptive 2 жыл бұрын

Great clarity on exciters as a tool, but I do love the tl;dr ending "Just use an equalizer"

@HansolJang 2 жыл бұрын

thank you so much

@Triyanox 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing Stufff !!!!

@RodrigoLana 2 жыл бұрын

Que vídeo sensacional!

@ChrisConwayinthestudio 3 жыл бұрын

excellent video

@m.i.stapes 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a fan of your too much setting!!

@felixmartinmusic Жыл бұрын

amazing

@kiliankraus 2 жыл бұрын

love the demo song

@mixedbyyeldo 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, Don Moen is now a mastering engineer.

@JohnJeevasingham 3 жыл бұрын

God is good!

@xx4248 2 жыл бұрын

Fun vid

@DBCisco 3 жыл бұрын

"color" is a pretty word for distortion.

@rajkamaljangir3618 3 жыл бұрын

❤️

@MikeHeebz 3 жыл бұрын

Vibes, Vibes & more Vibes! Can you hear me now...Thanks Jonathan. =)

@RoboticusMusic 3 жыл бұрын

What is meant by tape having a head bump depending on tape speed/accent? Is this like transient design? 14:10

@88keyz 3 жыл бұрын

👍🏾🔥👍🏾

@dafingaz 3 жыл бұрын

I'm listening @dafingaz

@rogercabo5545 2 жыл бұрын

The comparement before 10:00 is fails. There is not difference between Tube and Triode in this time area. And from 10:44 you hear a difference in Tube at sides (more stereo width) at about 300Hz to 800Hz.

@GiggleByteGuy 2 жыл бұрын

i dig the cat t-shirt

@TheSpeedyr6 3 жыл бұрын

What headphone r u using man

@xx4248 2 жыл бұрын

What does hashy sound like? Is that like the sound of brown?

@AutPen38 Жыл бұрын

Brown noise is quite hashy, but white noise is even hashier.

@OriginalRaveParty 3 жыл бұрын

Subtle stuff, that can add some of that historical hardware mojo.

@AlimColin 10 ай бұрын

BUT!!! where on the mastering chain do we place the exciter?

@samspritzer1643 3 жыл бұрын

It's like comparing apples to Waldorf salad 😂

@tuc5987 Жыл бұрын

What I don't understand is, why do all of this at the mastering stage? Aren't these mixing decisions? I'm sure there are good reasons but why?

@atta1798 2 жыл бұрын

triode is a tube ....

@AutPen38 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, a triode is an amplifying vacuum tube/valve, so I wonder if the Ozone setting called "tube" is an emulation of a different type, like a pentode. With my uneducated ears I can never tell the difference unless I turn the volume right up and pay close attention.