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Originally Posted by
Bilbo Flabbins
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Ok. I bought the DMG. I used your preset on the master fader of a pro tools session. It gave me a 100000+ sample latency. I copied your settings for a low latency iteration of the EQ. I don't know where to change the linear phase setting.
You had a deactivated lowpass setting at around 130hz as well. The 352hz setting was a highpass. Enabling both resulted in a very interesting effect. It smooths out the perception of the high end while seemingly increasing the sense of depth. I was thinking messing with the phase like this would reduce the sense of depth, but what do I know.
I assume since there's a perceptual reduction/smoothing of the high end, the reduction of the perceptual randomness of the high frequencies allows my brain to localize things better - like when you have a noisy video...noise reduction would make it easier to see certain elements in the scene.
I'm gonna sit with this for a while. I think this might be a really good trick.
If you listen to that deactivated band again, when you turn it on, it does some weird phase smearing. It's almost sweet sounding and sounds deceptively nice, but it is definitely messing with the punch and timing of the bass so its best turned off.
Back to the band that sounds good: to adjust the effect on the transients, put the EQ into Free Phase mode then adjust the super tiny circle on the phase graph. It moves up and down, and its in the Setup menu. Look for tiny dots that kind of hiding on that phase graph. It will be at 352hz.
As you found out, you can also adjust the impulse response for more or less effect. Unfortunately I think it sounds best with the highest impulse resonse which cause a huge delay.