Sound Performance Lab 9319, 9320 owner manual Sound Reinforcement Video & Film Post Production

Sound

Reinforcement

Video & Film

Post Production

In live performance or in club installations, the STEREO VITALIZER 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 helps produce a detailed, tight sound, even from indifferent speaker systems giving an improvement in perceived audio quality.

The STEREO VITALIZER can be of great value when mixing under time-pres- sure. You can almost leave the onboard EQs flat and create the FOH sound with the STEREO VITALIZER in the master inserts.

As in other areas, the STEREO VITALIZER can be used to sharpen and enri- chen 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 is so quick to set up can save a lot of wasted time spent tuning multi-band equalizers.

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 difference 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 spectrum and a very deep low end so that the voice sounds full."

Mix Magazine, December 1992

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