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Post by bluegrassdan on Feb 14, 2018 23:39:00 GMT -6
Came across this interesting scientific article comparing the harmonic distortion characteristics of the LA2A, 1176, and Farchild 660/670 compressors. I have measured these same harmonic figures on my LA2a and am fascinated how dependant this unit is on the program material. It leads me to wonder how close the digital plugins are at recreating these seemingly infinite parameters of compression characteristics. Does anyone know of similar scholarly articles comparing digital to hardware? pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c531/29a2a260c3708a30ab842ac20bad3b031689.pdf |
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Post by Ward on Feb 15, 2018 6:40:24 GMT -6
THANK YOU!!! I love technical white papers. I know I'm weird and a nerd, but to me they're better reads than any fiction.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Feb 15, 2018 8:52:20 GMT -6
The first time I tested the frequency response of my LA2A during compression I thought it was broken. This paper confirms precisely what I measured. An increase in the odd harmonics during compression.
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Post by aremos on Feb 15, 2018 9:03:43 GMT -6
Yes! There are so many variables involved. Great point. |
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Post by EmRR on Feb 15, 2018 9:21:28 GMT -6
The first time I tested the frequency response of my LA2A during compression I thought it was broken. This paper confirms precisely what I measured. An increase in the odd harmonics during compression. I'm curious what you expected, versus what you found. |
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Post by jampa on Feb 16, 2018 2:01:16 GMT -6
Don't know of any articles but... DDMF recently released a program called Plugin Doctor* which could help in such an project. (*Apparently someone else has already made a similar program, however, theirs is Windows-only) ddmf.eu/plugindoctor/ |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2018 12:01:02 GMT -6
Does that work with hardware though? I thought it was for loading plugins only.
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Post by bluegrassdan on Feb 16, 2018 19:05:10 GMT -6
The first time I tested the frequency response of my LA2A during compression I thought it was broken. This paper confirms precisely what I measured. An increase in the odd harmonics during compression. I'm curious what you expected, versus what you found. I guess that I didn't really know what to expect. Perhaps more even order harmonics. But it's so cool to see how the harmonic contect changes during compression. I will get on our UAD plugins next week and see how they compare. |
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Post by jampa on Feb 17, 2018 0:00:42 GMT -6
Does that work with hardware though? I thought it was for loading plugins only. Yea nah only works with plugins. Not sure what other programs are out there for this sort of stuff but there must be a few. The authors of the paper would have used one. Acustica Audio uses one to compare their software to the hardware its based on I think? |
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