Hi folks and Vojtech,
why does Meldaproduction use a slope of 3dB for their analysers, while the other use 4.5dB? What slope does more correspond to the human listening?
Thanks and greets
Marek
Analyzer Slope default
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- KVRian
- 965 posts since 12 May, 2019
I think not everyone hears the exact same. Personally, I tend to hear at around -4.5dB/oct and used to use that slope as well. However, many people use -3dB/oct and it sort of encourages a brighter mix (slope flat at -3dB is brighter) so I'm switching back over.
To answer your question, though, I think 4.5 is closer than 3. 3 is just pink noise so it makes sense from a technical perspective and is definitely much closer to hearing than 0 (white noise). I recall seeing a sort of quasi-statistical analysis of genres and their slopes. The results were pretty stereotypical in the sense that the more the style is considered 'old people music', the darker it gets.
To answer your question, though, I think 4.5 is closer than 3. 3 is just pink noise so it makes sense from a technical perspective and is definitely much closer to hearing than 0 (white noise). I recall seeing a sort of quasi-statistical analysis of genres and their slopes. The results were pretty stereotypical in the sense that the more the style is considered 'old people music', the darker it gets.
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- KVRAF
- 10375 posts since 2 Sep, 2003 from Surrey, UK
From the Help info:
And you can change it here, then save the Settings as the default):Slope
Slope makes the analyser increase the magnitude of higher frequencies, since they are typically lower in energy. 3dB per octave is a typical value, which makes pink noise horizontal as pink noise contains equal energy in each octave. Therefore if you set slope to 3dB, the response would be the same for the FFT and 1/3 octave graphs.