Gee, I guess I put everyone to sleep with nerdy DSP stuff
before I got to this part:
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Originally Posted by David Rick  If we restrict ourselves to minimum phase, interesting things are still possible. But to get them, we have to break free of the "tyranny of the bell curve". Think of how a graphic equalizer curve looks if you just push up one fader. Now imagine that curve having a different shape: it might have steeper sides, a broader top -- it might even be asymmetrical. There could be a knob for the plateau width, several choices for the skirt slope, and a knob to control the skew. It's really no problem to build such things in DSP, but the question is: would you use them?
Would you be willing to learn that part of your craft all over again? Or do like the fact that you already know how to use an EQ? |
And to take the discussion in another direction, it seems like people value certain old hardware EQ's for sonic characteristics (distortion) some of which happen even with no boost or cut. Well, suppose you could "boost" a particular frequency region, but the plug in didn't really boost it -- it just created more 2nd or 3rd harmonics (but only for stuff in the "boosted" frequency region). Would that be useful. Does somebody already make such a plug in?
David L. Rick
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