[LAU] Re: real time Grahic EQ

Fons Adriaensen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.audio.users
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 11:22:34AM +0200, Peter P. wrote:

> I suppose, its parameters can not be stored to/read from a (text)file or
> are otherwise storable?

Not in this release. I wanted for a long time to create a common 
preset/memory system for all the zita-* stuff, but that never 
happened. See the small rectangle just below the zita logo ?
This is where the button opening the presets dialog will go...

> > The shelf sections have a variable slope. When this is set above
> > 2/3 of the range, the gain will first go in the opposite direction
> > before going up or down to the set gain. This was a feature of some
> > of the most famous analog equalisers.
> Does this mean there will be a resonance peak?

See <http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/shelf2filt.html>

There is a peak but in the opposite direction of the shelf. This
enhances the difference between the 'shelved' part and region just
before it.

> I wonder which analog EQs used this

IIR correctly, the EQ in some of the big SSL consoles had this.

> and if its users were aware of this feature at all....

Some probably were. But in those times, no sound engineer worth
his title needed a graphical display of the EQ response. We just
*listened* ...

Ciao,

-- 
FA




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