On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:14:58PM +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Digital emulations of well-known analog equalisers have become a genre > of their own... Usually the 'good imperfections' (noise, distortion,...) > are emulated as well, as if the creators of those EQs actually added > them on purpose. I can't imagine any of the designers at e.g. Neve or > SSL ever doing that - they went for the best technical specs they could > have.
Agreed. Some types of distortion can sound nice on the right material, but I prefer to add that separately if I think it's required. I don't want an EQ to make that decision for me. > Not that all equalisers are equal, far from it. Some of those classic > designs had some unusual features such as higher order shelf filters > which are actually quite nice to have. > > I wrote an equaliser having those some years ago (not yet published, > maybe I will some day), and it has become my 'workhorse'. You can > see some of the frequency responses here: > <http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/shelf2filt.html> Please do consider releasing that if you get time. I can think of several situations where it would have been very useful to have that :-) John _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
