Most Engineers Get Distortion Wrong
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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All three are great! Some do some things better than others, so it all depends on use case.
Fun fact: There is a certain very specific instance where saturation can actually remove harmonics! If you take a triangle wave and run it into a very simple lookup style saturation (I used melda audio's saturation for this) you can dial it in such that it becomes a sine wave on the output! Just a fun neat trick, I doubt it has any real application.
Interesting!
I have even seen things in texts meant to those who are new to audio, write things like that male voices can get down as low as 80 Hz. While it's true when looking at the fundamental, it's far from true when it comes to where the majority of the acoustic power, is emitted. Many people apparently have hard to understand that anything else than a sine wave, must consist of multiple frequencies.
Electrical engineers are probably more familar in general with this, than those so called sound engineers. For example in AC systems, harmonics is usually unwanted and may cause noise issues far above the operating frequency (this is due to frequencies that's not supposed to be there, appears because of the distortion).
The level of the harmonics determine the wave shape - but what also matter (not shown in the video) is the phase angle of the harmonics. By adjusting those 2 factors, any wave form may be created.
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I can also achieve something similar by squashing my mix especially the kick
Been looking for a video like this, would love to learn as much as I can about the theory behind distortion. Thank you!
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I could not hear the difference between the before/after drum demo, even when listening carefully. I feel like I’m being gaslit! Ha. What should I listen for?
I take it back, I can hear more sizzle on the snare. What else?
I wonder how you could manipulate the wave form by introducing low level harmonics to the mix.
thats what he did. do you mean additional low frequency harmonics? this would result in the opposite like a subharmonic generator, bass enhancer etc. etc. exists also for a long time.
Fourier Transforms
This reminds me of one of the Discworld books where ArchChancellor Ridcully congratulates Pondor Stibbons: 'Well done that man! You almost managed to explain that without mentioning Quantum even once'... Sorry, I guess you have to know the series to get the context.... :-)
Wheres the full vid? Not on site
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There is no right and wrong in creative practice, there is only good and bad, and those are subjective terms rather than absolutes. I think there is something inherently elitist to determining a technique as being wrong, it’s better to suggest ways in which a practice can be “improved” rather than to discard alternative practice as wholly incorrect.
where fourier series here and his theory
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in A4=432 hz all C frequencies are multiple of 8 exactly ....
True, but remember that the second is an arbitrary unit of time that happens to have been adopted as a convenient standard by human scientists and engineers. There is nothing mystical or magical about A=432.
Test: I just replied to this and it didn't show up?
OK, let's try again. Yes, A=432 puts middle C at 256 Hz. But the second is an arbitrary unit of time which has been standardized for convenience by human scientists and engineers. It has no 'universal' significance. So there is nothing magical or mystical about A=432.