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Absolute phase/polarity









With a fairly long thread going on over in the speaker forum on absolute phase/polarity I got to thinking (always a dangerous thing) and wondered just how big the difference is when you flip polarity. As most pros say the biggest difference is with kick drum, I got a pretty good wav file of a kick hit and made a new track repeating the hit 5 times, then 5 times with polarity reversed, then back, and so on. I posted the wav file in an open dropbox folder - the link is below. The 1st pic shows the waveform going from a normal hit to the reversed polarity hit. The 2nd pic shows a detail of the hit waveform.

I can't hear a difference. Can you, or am I missing something?

Also, looking on the detailed waveform, I wondered about that first full cycle of the waveform in front of the biggest peak. When I cut that first cycle out, the hit sound became dull dull dull -- it lost all its character. Apparently a kick drum being hit is a pretty complicated thing.

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Topic - Absolute phase/polarity - Bill Way 15:26:49 07/31/13 (83)
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