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peeder · 3rd January 2008, 01:45 AM

I would suspect that what's going on with the >20K bell boosts has to do with a subsequent interaction with the AD converter's filter. (Or a later SRC filter.)

Those boosts are going to be revealing everything about that filter, especially, I suspect, aliasing distortion. That aliasing distortion might be providing some dynamic sheen way up there that the listeners are sensing and interpreting as open airy top. Because most things at that frequency approximate white noise anyway, the aliasing distortion might not sound particularly nasty, and you're just getting your highs doubled-up under the filter that is already clamping down on them.

3rd January 2008, 01:45 AM	#26
peeder Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Working on my skills more =) Posts: 6,684	I would suspect that what's going on with the >20K bell boosts has to do with a subsequent interaction with the AD converter's filter. (Or a later SRC filter.) Those boosts are going to be revealing everything about that filter, especially, I suspect, aliasing distortion. That aliasing distortion might be providing some dynamic sheen way up there that the listeners are sensing and interpreting as open airy top. Because most things at that frequency approximate white noise anyway, the aliasing distortion might not sound particularly nasty, and you're just getting your highs doubled-up under the filter that is already clamping down on them.