Umm, I respect you Dave. Of

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2007-03-20 21:09.

Umm, I respect you Dave.

Of course some filters are fatter than others. Treating a filter as though it is simply there to strip away harmonics and amplify a few harmonics around the cutoff point ... is to disregard the inherent non-linearities that are present in analog, the various kinds of phase shift that happen around the cutoff frequencies, the georgeous distortion and noise that is created in a good filter.

It's like saying that coke, 7 up and wine are simply flavored water. That is true, but the flavorings matter. Pure filters (i.e. with no distortion, no non-linearities, etc) are just as fun as distilled water. I think you have been drinking too much distilled water and have forgotten the sound of rich fruity filters of the analog kind.

Go get some bog standard white noise, and run it through different analog filters with character (say a Voyager filter and an MS20 filter). Your ears will remember the difference.

Jerry

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