ANALYSIS OF ALL-PASS FILTERS APPLICATION TO ELIMINATE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF LOUDNESS WAR TREND

Marcin Maciejewski

m.maciejewski@pollub.pl
Lublin Univeristy of Technology, Department of Electronics and Information Technologies (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9116-5481

Wojciech Surtel


Lublin Univeristy of Technology, Department of Electronics and Information Technologies (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1166-4083

Krzysztof Nowak


Lublin Univeristy of Technology, Department of Electronics and Information Technologies (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3117-7998

Abstract

In this paper the influence of all-pass filters on musical material with applied hypercompression dynamics (loudness war trend) was analyzed. These filters are characterized by shifting phase in selected frequency band of signal, not by change of their amplitude levels. Because a lot of music information is present in music tracks, the dynamic range was tested together with influence of other sound parameters like selectivity or instruments’ arrangement on scene, by running subjective tests on a group of respondents.


Keywords:

all-pass filters, digital filters, loudness war, dynamics compression

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2020-06-30

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Maciejewski, M., Surtel, W., & Nowak, K. (2020). ANALYSIS OF ALL-PASS FILTERS APPLICATION TO ELIMINATE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF LOUDNESS WAR TREND. Informatyka, Automatyka, Pomiary W Gospodarce I Ochronie Środowiska, 10(2), 8–11. https://doi.org/10.35784/iapgos.568

Authors

Marcin Maciejewski 
m.maciejewski@pollub.pl
Lublin Univeristy of Technology, Department of Electronics and Information Technologies Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9116-5481

Authors

Wojciech Surtel 

Lublin Univeristy of Technology, Department of Electronics and Information Technologies Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1166-4083

Authors

Krzysztof Nowak 

Lublin Univeristy of Technology, Department of Electronics and Information Technologies Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3117-7998

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