[sdiy] More on Flanging...

[phillip m gallo]

Gene,

-->Tape Flanging is great.

... my theory that the two audio paths need a combination of full
fidelity, matched fidelity, and total lack of aliasing artifacts or whatever
to get the real deal.

--> Perhaps not "full fidelity" but instead 70db S/N, .3% Wow and Flutter,
Tape Bias bleed thru,
head modulation noise, harmonic distortion and hiss.

-->You might think i am joking but recall that when DBX was introduced to
tape recording many folks thought that it was "dull" sounding due to the
elimination of all of the usual hi-frequency energy found in the tape
"hiss".   It could be that the imperfections of tape are specially suited to
flanging.

-->Since Tape Flanging works "in time" it's sound is much better than
"phasors" (often called flangers) which work in the frequency domain.
Perhaps a delay based flanger that includes "tape hiss" would approximate
the sound.

regards,
p


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