What is the point of linear phase . . .

[DJErmac]

The highest end analog mixing and mastering equipment isn’t even analog,

whut?

If bought from Wish, this statement might be true...

[kraster]

The highest end analog mixing and mastering equipment isn’t even *linear phase.

Again it isn't a case of which is better or not.

Linear phase has an advantage where signals are correlated (multi mic setup for drums, for example) where you don't have to concern yourself with phase issues arising from the phase shift with minimum phase eqs

For example you might want to make a snare brighter by using a high shelf the bottom snare mic but the phase shift from the high shelf might start interacting with the top snare mic and cause phase cancellation in certain frequencies resulting in a different overall sound. With linear phase you don't have to worry about any of that because there is no phase shift.

It's not that you can't use minimum phase eqs for eqing snares, you can use a higher band, different slope to get your desired resuly but that by using linear phase you just don't have to worry about phase shift at all.

As I said before it's just a different approach to eqing.

I often use linear phase on things like acoustic guitar when it has more than one mic since such harmonically rich sources can be problematic when eqing. With linear phase a boost is a boost and a cut is cut at the frequency you choose.

[MasteringBOX]

Different tools, different jobs.
Correlated material (layered drums, multi-mic strings, crossover bands): linear phase keeps everything locked and avoids the comb-filtering you’d hear if each layer shifts slightly.
Isolated sources or when you want analogue flavour: minimum-phase is perfect.
Modern workflows let us render off-line, so latency isn’t an obstacle. In short, choose the filter that serves the track, not the hype.