I hear a lot of talk regarding a particular instrument's filter sounding "good" or sounding "bad", and I was wondering if someone could point me to audio resources so I can educate my ears to hear the qualitative difference.
Thanks in advance,
Bob
The "Sound" of Filters
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- KVRer
- 12 posts since 4 Jul, 2004
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- KVRAF
- 7886 posts since 24 Feb, 2003 from Earth, USA
Oh, such a tough question. 
I'd first check out impOSCar to really see how most people round these parts consider to be a great 'analog' modelled filter. Push the resonance up and listen to its behavior to the audio. A lot of filters just get kinda 'whistle-y' but not really saturated. Listen to how smooth a filter sweep is when the filter frequency is changed too. Adern's Flexor is a good example of a 'smooth' filter sweep, in my opinion. Fab Filter One, while sounding quite boring does have an excellent filter as well.
Here's the Flexor filter sweep for example.
http://adern.com/downloads/flexor_sampl ... _sweep.mp3
The Virus' filter seemed to be well raved about as well, although I have no personal experience with one.
Devon
I'd first check out impOSCar to really see how most people round these parts consider to be a great 'analog' modelled filter. Push the resonance up and listen to its behavior to the audio. A lot of filters just get kinda 'whistle-y' but not really saturated. Listen to how smooth a filter sweep is when the filter frequency is changed too. Adern's Flexor is a good example of a 'smooth' filter sweep, in my opinion. Fab Filter One, while sounding quite boring does have an excellent filter as well. Here's the Flexor filter sweep for example.
http://adern.com/downloads/flexor_sampl ... _sweep.mp3
The Virus' filter seemed to be well raved about as well, although I have no personal experience with one.
Devon
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- KVRAF
- 1981 posts since 26 Oct, 2003 from Toronto
A different approach - I go by the way a filter 'feels' to me. Moog feels 'fat and fuzzy', Rolands feels 'fat and chunky', Korg feels 'thin and rubbery', and Yamaha feels 'svelt and punchy'. I can of course hear the differences somewhat, but mostly for me it's 'the feel'.
Not very scientific, but when you've been around them long enough - you get a higher sense about them.
Not very scientific, but when you've been around them long enough - you get a higher sense about them.
