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A Tilt Filter in a Servo Loop

Tone controls based on the tilt filter first appeared in 1982, in the Quad 34 Hi-Fi preamp. More recently, tilt filters have found a home in specialist audio processors such as the Elysia mpressor. This paper describes a novel dynamic filter design based on a tilt filter. A control system sets the tilt slope of the filter, in order to servo the spectral median of the filter output to a user-specified target. Users also specify a tracking time. Potential applications include single-instrument processing (in the spirit of envelope filters) and mastering (for subtle control of tonal balance). Although we have prototyped the design as an AudioUnit plug-in, the architecture is also a good match for analog circuit implementation.

Authors: Lazzaro, John; Wawrzynek, John
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
AES Convention:133 (October 2012) Paper Number:8692 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Audio Effects and Physical Modeling

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