On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:09:52AM +0200, Tim Goetze wrote:
on average, the branched truncate costs more in this
filter
than simply ignoring denormals. for this particular filter,
there doesn't seem to be a good reason to switch to floats
at least on the system i use. if i was pressed for a rule,
i'd say use doubles unless you need to store lots of them.
No, there is no good reason to switch to floats here. I havn't found that
doubles are generally better than floats though - but I also dont have a
way of prediciting it either. It would save be a lot of time if I did.
currently, i'm looking at what a sine wave looks
like after
it's been handled by a good distortion stomp box. the way it
shapes the wave form seems easy to grasp, but as usual, i
am hesitant to implement what i don't understand fully ...
I've found that the precise shape of the transfer function is important to
the sound, do you have a model for the transfer function or are you just
going to smaple it?
the recording seems to be of decent quality, and the
iir
response irons away most of the noise anyway. but the most
important thing is i like the sound of it, which i do a lot.
i've tried about every of your impulses and, would you
believe it, liked the fenders the least. i regularly play
a fender super 60, for ten years or so. :) got to take
a response from it someday myself.
Sadly heres where my zero knowledge of amps kicks in ;) I wouldn't know a
fender form a hole in the ground.
I'm
wondering if this technique can be used for reverbs too - generate a
purely "white" synthetic reverb tail, and apply an IIR the aproximate
shape of the rooms impulse to it to make it sound more real...
very interesting thought indeed. do you have a good response
for trying this? (sorry, "steve's flat" doesn't qualify,
"albert hall" is more like it ;)
I have some, but there not included because there 1) very long 2) legally
dubious. I dont think that deriving an EQ curve form them can be dodgy
though - the hard part is more likly to be getting a purly white reverb -
I suspect that all those allpass's and combs dont even out very well.
PS "Steve's flat" was captured with a half knackered monitor and a three
quarters knackered mic. I should probably do it again, as I have moved :)
- Steve