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  • How to deal with Combiltering?

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    U

    I put a " flute 1" playing with a bass flute. There's combfiltering all over the place. including replacing the bass flute with a "flute 1"  I provided an audio sample. Flute plays an E4 and bass flute a B3.  Worse than scratching a chalkboard, isn't it? Flute quartets are possible in real life. This happens with many instruments. How do I fix this issue in general. This has limited my options many times with many instruments.
  • M
    M

    I do not hear any phasing issues. Am I tonedeaf?
  • U
    U

    To describe what to listen for,  it sounds like a third sound underneath the two. Like a faint lower pitch buzzing. 
  • A
    A

    What you are hearing is the effect produced by playing fifths, that will give a psychoacoustic effect of hearing the octave below.

    If this is not something you want, then avoid held low fifths between similar instruments.
  • DietzD
    VSL Team
    DietzD

    -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_tone

    -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subharmonic

     

    HTH,

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
  • U
    U

    Extremely interesting.  I have to look into Combination Tones more.  Been busy lately.
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    @MassMover said:

    I do not hear any phasing issues. Am I tonedeaf?


    No, and that isn't comb-filtering.
  • S
    S

    my flute teacher showed me that effect when i was 14. we both played long notes on concert flutes in fifth. after a while we heared a sub bass standing in the room.
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    @umarekawaru said:

    Extremely interesting.  I have to look into Combination Tones more.  Been busy lately.

    Combination tones will be exaggerated if you pass the dyad (two notes summed) through a nonlinear process like compressor or saturator. See:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_chord