Good plugin to spice up older mastered cds

Hi Guys,
I have a few older cds that were mastered very low and dont have much punch. I was wondering what would be a good plug in to use to punch up the tracks. I'm not looking to add more EQ but a little bit of exciter would be nice to brighten them up a bit.I was thinking maybe Magneto or psp vintage warmer, maybe waves L2 or 3? Also, I heard of a way you could take a track and brighten it up and then overlap it on the existing track along with a little compression I think.(I guess they did this on Motown recordings a lot) Does anyone know how they did this and could you tell me how to do it. I just wanna spice up these tracks a bit.
Thanks
George

You could accomplish most (if not all) of this in one hit with iZotope's Ozone mastering system. It runs fine within Audition.
Alternatively, if you don't mind a bit of effort, you could almost certainly do all of what you need within Audition alone - just check out the 'mastering' plugin, which is a limited version of Ozone anyway.
As for the old trick of overlaying a slightly compressed version of a track over the original, that's easy - just lay the file twice, in two tracks, in MV, and compress just one of them. Mix the output to taste using the channel faders, whilst adding the 'mastering' effect in the master track effects section.

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