A minimum phase EQ is just another name for your normal everyday equalizer. Your Neve 1073, API 550, your Pultec EQP-1A. All of these equalizers experience phase shifts due to the latency created from changing the amplitude of specific frequency bands. This latency or delay of the frequencies causes what’s known as phase smear. Smearing leaves audible artifacts in the signal which can be undesirable. Many times you can’t hear smearing at all, other times you may like what it’s doing, but in other scenarios you may want an equalizer that keeps the phase consistent.
Linear phase equalizers are impossible in the analog world, but in plug-in land anything is possible. Programmers eventually developed an EQ that does not alter the phase at all— the phase is completely linear.
In my latest article I explain the difference between minimum and linear phase equalizers and why you might want to decide to pick one over the other.
Read the full article here, https://audiohertz.com/2018/03/08/what-the-fck-is-linear-phase-eq/
As always let me know if you have any comments or questions.
Submitted March 08, 2018 at 01:21PM by SirHumphryDavy https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/82ypcp/the_difference_between_linear_phase_and_minimum/?utm_source=ifttt