5 May
2016
5 May
'16
4:51 p.m.
Hi,
On 05/05/2016 15:23, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 05 May 2016 13:46:03 +0200, William Light
wrote:
Yes, an EQ chain should do the trick also for my needs
(I've already
done some test with a graphic EQ).
In that case, the term "tilt" is somewhat misleading. From the point of
view of what a tilt EQ do (intuitively) is clear. On the contrary, there
no exists a tilt EQ topology (in electrical sense). I mean, the filter
topolgy are HP, LP, HS, LS, Peak, ... and the tilt can be a combination
of one or more of this. Just the way the "tone" control of some consumer
device works. It is what tone control do, but any maker design the tone
control using a combination of basic filter types.
I have definitely used tilt EQs in the production
process. Not as my EQ
shape of choice but I've added little bits in as a broad "well, I wish
this sound was a bit more trebly/bassy".
I heard the first time in my life of
tilt EQs. After some web research
I noticed that it's just another kind of HiFi gear alike tone control.
Sure, we even could use chains of EQs and get good results, e.g. a
parametric EQ for the track, another for the subgroup and at the end in
addition a graphic EQ for the mastering, but we should reconsider that
a chain of EQs sometimes might ease the work, but also could be
counterproductive, one EQ reduces what another EQ boosts, in the end it
could cause a mess.
If I take a look at this plugin,
http://www.audiopluginsforfree.com/tal-use/ , I see more than just one
knob. Usage of some audio tools could make the engineering process
incalculable.
Another invention of the 70s was the exciter. I only tested digital
effects produced after the 70s and need to strongly advice against
those.
The exciter is a psycho-acoustic EQ. That means that is not an EQ in the
classic sense. It adds high harmonics to the signal using non linear
processing.
Can sound good sometimes, but I'm not excited by using exciter ;)
The meat and potatoes of relaxed audio engineering is cautious usage of
EQing. What seems to provide something useful in the first place, in
the end easily could become a serious issue.
As a side note, German audio Wikis are usually a good source and also
www.sengpielaudio.com/ partly in English. I suspect that Mr. Sengpiel
edited several German audio Wikis before he died. It might be worth to
translate them. When I learned, the Internet wasn't available, but I
would have used his information, if it would have being available that
time. IMO Mr. Sengpiel provides a little bit too much unneeded math,
instead of teaching intuitive engineering, but IMO his explanations
could be helpful for many people.
It seems to be a good resource. Unfortunately I
don't speak German so I
can access only to a subset of it.
Cheers
Regards,
Ralf
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