MATRIXSYNTH: What Does a Comb Filter Do?


Tuesday, October 21, 2008

What Does a Comb Filter Do?

"Although it is not an especially common type of filter, if you have a decent number of softsynths, you may have come across what is called a 'comb filter' (so named, because if you look at its frequency response, it looks like the teeth of a comb). Casual mucking about usually results in flanging type effects, which is all well and good, but why would you need that when your plug-in folder probably already has a dedicated flanging effect or two? While it is true that comb filters can be used for flanging type effects, where it really becomes useful is in doing a sort of basic physical modelling."
See the full post on Waveformless for a short tutorial you can try and a sample.

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