[sdiy] tonal tilt

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 05 October 2007 14:23, John Mahoney wrote:
> There was a hi-fi preamp or integrated amp back in the 70s that had a
> unique tone control that may have been called "Tilt". You could set
> the tilt to flat, up, or down. It would change the tonal balance by
> *gently* changing the frequency balance.
>
> Picture a frequency response graph. With flat response, the graph is
> a flat line. Now visualize a line that starts 1 db below flat at 20Hz
> and ends 1db above flat at 20kHz -- that is tilting it up; the
> response is now +2 db at 20kHz relative to 20Hz, but there are no
> peaks or dips in the frequency response.
>
> A tilt control would be pretty neat for warming or thinning the tone.
> The concept is simple. I don't suppose that it's electronically
> simple, too. Thoughts?

Sounds nifty.

I'd also like to see some kind of a setup where "volume" and "loudness" are 
separate controls,  and maybe having "brilliance" and "presence" controls as 
well as perhaps some others...

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