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pough · Post by **pough** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 5:26 pm

When is the last time you thought to yourself, "I would like to pass some highs on this track" and loaded up a high-pass filter to accomplish that goal? Or maybe you wanted some lows to be passed and used a low-pass filter?

Band-pass makes sense.

But the others? It's like putting on a coat to accomplish lower-body cooling. Whose idea was it to describe an effect by what it doesn't affect?

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 5:33 pm

poles? where are the flags? cmon, this is 2021!!!

Erisian · Post by **Erisian** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 5:41 pm

I tried doing a cover version of Hair but the comb filter didn't help.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 6:04 pm

Erisian wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 5:41 pm I tried doing a cover version of Hair but the comb filter didn't help.

have you tried a bit of wig?

DMG68 · Post by **DMG68** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 6:10 pm

Honestly, never. I haven’t loaded the wrong filter for what I want to do.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 6:19 pm

pough wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 5:26 pm When is the last time you thought to yourself, "I would like to pass some highs on this track" and loaded up a high-pass filter to accomplish that goal? Or maybe you wanted some lows to be passed and used a low-pass filter?

Band-pass makes sense.

But the others? It's like putting on a coat to accomplish lower-body cooling. Whose idea was it to describe an effect by what it doesn't affect?

Yep, the terminology seemed a bit "the other way around" to me first as well. But, it all makes sense, of course. You get used to it in the end anyway.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 6:49 pm

Well, maybe using terms like high-cut and low-cut are offensive to some people because they demean the frequencies that are being left out, as if they're not good enough, as if their parents failed miserably and now they'll never amount to anything and mommy doesn't even bother to answer when they call anymore, and.....

OK, sorry. I just think that high-pass and low-pass are nice ways to acknowledge the frequencies that are doing the job without putting a spotlight on the ones that didn't make the cut.

Erisian · Post by **Erisian** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 6:51 pm

cryophonik wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 6:49 pm Well, maybe using terms like high-cut and low-cut are offensive to some people because they demean the frequencies that are being left out, as if they're not good enough, as if their parents failed miserably and now they'll never amount to anything and mommy doesn't even bother to answer when they call anymore, and.....

OK, sorry. I just think that high-pass and low-pass are nice ways to acknowledge the frequencies that are doing the job without putting a spotlight on the ones that didn't make the cut.

I think those terms are heightist.

pough · Post by **pough** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 7:46 pm

cryophonik wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 6:49 pm Well, maybe using terms like high-cut and low-cut are offensive to some people because they demean the frequencies that are being left out, as if they're not good enough, as if their parents failed miserably and now they'll never amount to anything and mommy doesn't even bother to answer when they call anymore, and.....

OK, sorry. I just think that high-pass and low-pass are nice ways to acknowledge the frequencies that are doing the job without putting a spotlight on the ones that didn't make the cut.

On the contrary I think we should acknowledge the marginalized frequencies instead of the privileged ones. It doesn't feel right to disappear them twice over.

Acid Mitch · Post by **Acid Mitch** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:00 pm

If low pass was called low cut it would be a bit ambiguous because it's not cutting the lows and if you called it high cut then it says nothing about the frequency range it works on.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:06 pm

just call it iiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeeesh

pough · Post by **pough** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:13 pm

Hink wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:06 pm just call it iiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeeesh

I can't pronounce any of those vowels because my consonant-pass filter is on, so I'll just have to call it "sh".

Erisian · Post by **Erisian** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:16 pm

Hink wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:06 pm just call it iiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeeesh

I'm glad it's not Swedish. We also have Ä and Ö and Y is always a vowel in Swedish too.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:18 pm

pough wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:13 pm
Hink wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:06 pm just call it iiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeeesh
I can't pronounce any of those vowels because my consonant-pass filter is on, so I'll just have to call it "sh".

bloody h, my d-essor is on

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:04 pm

pough wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 7:46 pm
cryophonik wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 6:49 pm Well, maybe using terms like high-cut and low-cut are offensive to some people because they demean the frequencies that are being left out, as if they're not good enough, as if their parents failed miserably and now they'll never amount to anything and mommy doesn't even bother to answer when they call anymore, and.....

OK, sorry. I just think that high-pass and low-pass are nice ways to acknowledge the frequencies that are doing the job without putting a spotlight on the ones that didn't make the cut.
On the contrary I think we should acknowledge the marginalized frequencies instead of the privileged ones. It doesn't feel right to disappear them twice over.

f**k em, theyre already lost to us.

Pet peeve: filter terminology