> Thank you very much for your answer ! > I have seen price of the moogerfooger and it's a little bit pricey for > me... I thing that the rs400 is a good solution. > However, I read some articles on the Net and there is something not very > clear for me : is a phaser the same as a comb filter ? My opinion is that > a phaser is a comb filter with the delay controled by a lfo. Am I right ? a phaser and a comb filter are different things. a phaser shifts the phase of a signal, then mixing this shifted signal with the inverted original signal. this causes notches in the frequency spectrum. the more stages in a phaser, the more notches you get. all these notches have the same amplitude and are "tempered". example of a 6-stage phaser: first notch 200 hz, second notch 1000 hz, third notch 5000 hz. a comb filter is delaying a signal by several milliseconds (much longer than a phaser) and mixes it with the original. this also causes notches, but these are different than those generated by a phaser. you get more notches, they have different amplitudes and they are not "tempered". this means, that a comb filter is more a flanger than a phaser. best wishes self oscillate
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Re: phaser vs. comb filter
2003-03-27 by selfoscillate
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