barclaycon
Well-known member
In the 80's when I first started working Digital, I went through the same dilemma as everyone else wondering why it sounded edgy and fatiguing.
Now that we have good converters and time alignment it's not such a problem, but in the early days it certainly was.
Having discovered that phase distortion was the primary cause of the edginess, I came across a little module made by Meyer (the monitor people) and I bought one and built it into a box to take round with me. It overcame the problem of badly designed anti-aliasing filters in machines like the Sony 3324 and enabled me to make much better recordings.
I took the module apart some years ago and also checked the Meyer patent. I've tried this circuit on several other digital devices such as cheap reverbs and it really does make them sound more expensive(!). Sounds have more depth and for the want of a better word, more 'warmth'.
Might be anther project to add to the list for people who want to try this approach.
Now that we have good converters and time alignment it's not such a problem, but in the early days it certainly was.
Having discovered that phase distortion was the primary cause of the edginess, I came across a little module made by Meyer (the monitor people) and I bought one and built it into a box to take round with me. It overcame the problem of badly designed anti-aliasing filters in machines like the Sony 3324 and enabled me to make much better recordings.
I took the module apart some years ago and also checked the Meyer patent. I've tried this circuit on several other digital devices such as cheap reverbs and it really does make them sound more expensive(!). Sounds have more depth and for the want of a better word, more 'warmth'.
Might be anther project to add to the list for people who want to try this approach.