Prosig Signal Processing Blog

Notes, tutorials, news and articles on digital signal capture, processing, techniques and applications

May 17, 2005

AUDIO EQUALISATION FILTER & PARAMETRIC FILTERING

By Dr Colin Mercer, Technical Director, Prosig

When working with audio signals a common requirement is to be able to equalise, cut or boost various frequency bands. A large number of hardware devices on the market provide this capability. The key aspect is that such filters are able to control bandwidth, centre frequency and gain separately. There are broadly two classes of filter used, a “shelving” filter and an “equalising “filter (also known as a “peak” filter). A shelving filter is akin to low pass and high pass filters. An equalising filter is like a bandpass or band reject filter. read »»»

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