"Sizzle Bus"

Glad you like it! I also find it very useful, particularly on tracks recorded with dynamic mics. On some older material, I even use it as an overall processor on the master bus. You have to be careful not to overdo it, but I feel the results are much better than just boosting treble to add "air."

It's actually fairly simple. From the Sizzle Bus section in the Everett issue of the monthly eZine:
 
HOW IT WORKS
The Sizzle Bus uses a high-pass filter to eliminate all but the highest frequencies, which are then distorted to create artificial harmonics above the natural harmonics. This is similar to how the original “exciter” hardware circuits worked. Keep the bus fader low; you don’t need much sizzle to create the desired effect.
 
THE CONTROLS
HF Cutoff sets the high frequency cutoff from about 8.6 kHz to 17 kHz.
Sizzle adjusts the aggressiveness of the distortion.
Delay delays the sizzle signal from 0 to 2 ms. Longer delays can give more depth.
Width varies the stereo placement from mono (control counter-clockwise) to stereo (clockwise).



 

Anderton
Glad you like it! I also find it very useful, particularly on tracks recorded with dynamic mics. On some older material, I even use it as an overall processor on the master bus. You have to be careful not to overdo it, but I feel the results are much better than just boosting treble to add "air."

My findings exactly.

Thanks Craig.
 
I also have Reaktor and have compared their effect to Sizzle.  Both do a quite nice job with very little input.  I would compare both with BBE's Sonic Maximizer, either the VST plug or the hardware model 802.
 
I have used BBE's component for years to brighten up cassettes and LP's when making master cassettes for duplication. 
 
Now I can just have Sonar running, instead of Reaktor when I think it is a overkill.

Please check out the documentation in the Everett eZine, that's the only existing documentation for it.

Anderton
It's actually fairly simple. From the Sizzle Bus section in the Everett issue of the monthly eZine:

Didn't we all get signed up for these eZines automatically when we bought into Platinum?
I don't seem to be getting them. I even checked my spam folder.

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Anderton
It's actually fairly simple. From the Sizzle Bus section in the Everett issue of the monthly eZine:

Didn't we all get signed up for these eZines automatically when we bought into Platinum?
I don't seem to be getting them. I even checked my spam folder.

All of them are available in the "What's New" section of the Cakewalk site. Not very obvious, but the link is also included in the fupdate announcement that appears in the forum. Maybe the release installers should have a button to download it...or maybe it could open up during the download.

In the browser under fx chain, Anderton collection, processors.