Originally Posted By: ClubNeon
You mention comb filtering. Indeed that is real and measurable, but as has been stated by our gracious hosts here, it is not actually all that detrimental.

I have a semi-secret audio production technique that I use for widening sounds. It purposely introduces comb filtering.

Here's a quick wave file, the first snippet is in mono, and the second is the same mono source passed through through the comb filter effect I built.

See what real world effect it has...

http://www.clubneon.com/test/Neon-Comb.wav


According to the chapter on The Audibility of Acoustical Interference - Comb Filtering in Tooles book this is partially true. He also gets into that it can be detrimental to loudspeaker reproduction as well. It's certainly a complicated topic.

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