ruairioflaherty
Well-known member
Ahhhh.......much better.
This is the phase response of a 6 dB per octave filter at the same frequency.
I tend to use either 6 or 12 dB per octave and very occasionally 18.
Now to be clear I'm not saying that just because we can measure a trade off in phase response that we should be afraid of steep filters, but in a good room with good speakers you will start to hear the differences and make better choices.
I hear the gallery saying "but the Beatles made great records on ancient speakers in untreated rooms". Yes, but the production values of the time were different and the engineers did not have access to 96 dB per Octave filters and multi band parallel upward expansion etc...
So, we have tools these days that are more powerful but can also inflict a lot more damage on audio. We have production values that demand huge low end, high levels and maximum impact. The upshot? Less processing is better and if you are going to use a modern and powerful tool like multi band compression or 96 dB/oct filters be sure that you can hear what is really happening to the audio. You might be working on the next Beatles..
This is the phase response of a 6 dB per octave filter at the same frequency.
I tend to use either 6 or 12 dB per octave and very occasionally 18.
Now to be clear I'm not saying that just because we can measure a trade off in phase response that we should be afraid of steep filters, but in a good room with good speakers you will start to hear the differences and make better choices.
I hear the gallery saying "but the Beatles made great records on ancient speakers in untreated rooms". Yes, but the production values of the time were different and the engineers did not have access to 96 dB per Octave filters and multi band parallel upward expansion etc...
So, we have tools these days that are more powerful but can also inflict a lot more damage on audio. We have production values that demand huge low end, high levels and maximum impact. The upshot? Less processing is better and if you are going to use a modern and powerful tool like multi band compression or 96 dB/oct filters be sure that you can hear what is really happening to the audio. You might be working on the next Beatles..