[LAU] Why does PHASEX sound so damn good?

[Will Godfrey]

On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:07:58 +0000
Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 09:11:15AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> > > > > Whatever qualities it may have, this is crappy.
> > 
> > You are being too kind, Ken.  Has this list gotten so genteel you can't 
> > use more descriptive terms?
> 
> If you refer to the 'crappy', I wrote that, not Ken. 
> 
> To see what I mean:
> 
> <http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/phasex-mellow-pad.png>
> 
> All I needed to get that was loading the 'mellow-pad' patch from
> sys-patches and hit a C-Maj chord. Output level as indicated by 
> jkmeter was +9.5 dB FS. Which means that all that would remain
> of this after DA conversion was full scale DC for a second or so.
> 
> Mellow, indeed.
> 
> Ciao,

Ouch!

I've had a few tries with phasex and it sounded interesting, but never got on
with it because of information overload - too many controls all visible at
once :(

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Will J Godfrey
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