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adamasd

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I am looking for some good reading on filtes and eq. I have Passive Audio Network Design which is pretty great, and some book called Active Filters, but it is pretty limited in scope. Any websites, patents, or books to recommend?

adam
 
Hi Adam,

ESP has great info on alot of things, including bandpass filters.
Dont know if its to basic for you, but check it out...

http://sound.westhost.com/project63.htm
 
[quote author="gyraf"]Duncan's "Active Filter Cookbook"[/quote]

Do you possibly mean Don Lancaster's AFC gyraf?

Adam, you need to give some guidelines for the level you seek. The literature on filters is amazingly vast, and ranges from "cookbooks" to highly abstruse treatises.

One significant gap, however, is in the very area of audio applications: for equalization we want shelving filters and peaking/dipping filters, and although these are within the scope of the literature on generalized biquadratic and lower/higher-order transfer functions, they are not usually described in much useful detail. Instead we have no end of highpass, lowpass, bandpass, and notch filters of various shapes and sizes. We need these, definitely, but for EQ we usually want low-to-moderate sharpness transfer functions whose magnitude never goes to zero---say a dip that is 5dB deep and with a fractional halfwidth of 2/3 of the center frequency. It's hard to find this stuff---enough so that some companies treat it as proprietary.

Rane I suspect has published some pretty good material, although I haven't looked at much of it. Search their site or drop Dennis Bohn a note (I assume he is still there when I say that).

Recent literature in JAES has tended to focus on digital filter implementations of audio-style filters, so may not be too helpful. I recall a paper by Shpak (think that's the spelling) on peaking/dipping filters from a few years ago along those lines, and it may have had some references to analog filter art.

For passive filters the generally acknowledged "bible" is Zverev's Handbook of Filter Synthesis, still in print after many years and which I notice is now in paperback.
 
Tremaine's "Audio Encyclopedia", the mixing console design chapters by Steve Dove is an excellent primer on the subject.

Also, if you can get your hands on a copy National Semiconductors "Audio Applications Manual". It's been out of print for some 15-20 years, but you never know.
 
[quote author="adamasd"] called Active Filters, but it is pretty limited in scope. Any websites, patents, or books to recommend?
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[quote author="cuelist"]Tremaine's "Audio Encyclopedia", the mixing console design chapters by Steve Dove is an excellent primer on the subject.

Also, if you can get your hands on a copy National Semiconductors "Audio Applications Manual". It's been out of print for some 15-20 years, but you never know.[/quote]

Dove is not in Tremaine's Audio Cyclopedia, but rather Ballou's Handbook for Sound Engineers, subtitled The New Audio Cyclopedia. The first edition is from 1987 and has probably most of what you want in Steve's chapter. By the third edition (2002) he has revised extensively and it is now called Consoles and Computers :roll:

NS book you want I believe is the "Audio Handbook", 1976, ed. by Dennis Bohn. It is scarce---no copies that I could find using bookfinder.
 
[quote author="bcarso"]Dove is not in Tremaine's Audio Cyclopedia, but rather Ballou's Handbook for Sound Engineers, subtitled The New Audio Cyclopedia. [/quote]

You're right of course - sorry for confusing! :oops:

I still have my NS Audio Handbook, very worn but well worth keeping.
 
I alwasys seem to be to vague on my first try, it always seems so obvious to me as to what i am looking for :roll:

Audio applications and EQ, no cookbooks, more indepth, theory and all that fun stuff.

I just placed an order for "Handbook of Filter Synthesis", it looks like it is going to be a good read. The Audio Cyclopedia is one I have on my list, but have not yet bought.

I will go dig through rane's site and the AES library now.

thanks,
adam
 
A couple files from the Rane website for anyone who may read this post.

Equalization Methods with True Response using Discrete Filters
http://www.rane.com/pdf/eqmethods.pdf

Accelerated Slope Tone Control Equalizers
http://www.rane.com/pdf/acceler.pdf

adam
 

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