Using "High passing filter" - yes or no?

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Balanced sounds can still have excess DC or something in the lowest freqs because of how its sampled or how it is generated.
We mainly use Diva and Omnisphere and sometimes there is huge larger than life bump on the 0-30hz area bouncing up with your notes. This is something one does not want :)
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legendCNCD wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:49 am Balanced sounds can still have excess DC or something in the lowest freqs because of how its sampled or how it is generated.
We mainly use Diva and Omnisphere and sometimes there is huge larger than life bump on the 0-30hz area bouncing up with your notes. This is something one does not want :)
But this is mastering stage stuff.

And I meant balanced spectrum too.

A worthy note is also that sometimes or often when a FFT analyzer shows that there's a lot of stuff in the lowest frequencies does not in fact mean it's as pronounced, but it looks like it, because the FFT resolution makes the lowest bins quite wide.

E.g. this is Waves' PAZ Analyzer:

https://media.wavescdn.com/images/produ ... ixjs-3.6.1

The node where the graph's lines connect are the division points. Notice how it has only one node between 0-64 (or so). All frequencies there are binned to the nearest node.

Depending on the implementation the node either shows you the sum of all frequencies in the node's range or (if it's smartly coded) an average. Sometimes you can change this setting, and you should then check what it is.

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soundmodel wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:56 am
legendCNCD wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:49 am Balanced sounds can still have excess DC or something in the lowest freqs because of how its sampled or how it is generated.
We mainly use Diva and Omnisphere and sometimes there is huge larger than life bump on the 0-30hz area bouncing up with your notes. This is something one does not want :)
But this is mastering stage stuff.

And I meant balanced spectrum too.

A worthy note is also that sometimes or often when a FFT analyzer shows that there's a lot of stuff in the lowest frequencies does not in fact mean it's as pronounced, but it looks like it, because the FFT resolution makes the lowest bins quite wide.
No I'd rather not leave it at mastering, I'll cut them off from the channels when needed. Yeah I know some FFT analyzers show whatever, but these bumps are shown in all the analyzers. So yeah, cutting them off.
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For purists it can be a problem that no filter is perfect. So when cutting you potentially always remove something else too.

This is possibly why some advise to do as less processing rounds as possible.

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Sure, need to know the results and changes the processing does.
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