Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS group photo

Yahoo Groups archive

Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:43 UTC

Message

phase cancellation issue

2005-07-15 by bebotalk

hello!  this is my first post here...

so an annoying problem has popped up a few times with my desktop 
evolver:

When I've tried to create 808-style kick drums and deep dub-style 
bass patches using the two analog oscillators tuned to the same 
pitch (and with the amp output in "mono" rather than "stereo" mode), 
I get a slow sweeping phase cancellation that causes the volume of 
the sound to fluctuate in a roughly sine-wave-like pattern.  So as I 
keep triggering the sound over the course of say 30 seconds it will 
go through maybe one cycle of quiet and weak to full and deep.  This 
is annoying because I want to create some deep, low speaker-rattling 
kind of sounds.  And I know it's phase cancellation because it 
doesn't happen if I disconnect either output from my mixer.  And 
this is happening on sounds with no detuning, mod, filter split, or 
anything else I can think of that would cause phasing.  I guess the 
problem could be in my mixing board or monitor setup, but i've never 
noticed it with other low-pitched sources.  It seems that the 
problem is occuring in the summing of the left and right signal 
paths of the evolver.

Any ideas or solution?

Thanks!

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.