Quote:""Low cut" means a bell or shelf filter."
What! Manner of man are you?
In my world, it could only ever mean a blouse or a supporting garment beneath.
So if your subconscious is bringing up 'bells' and 'shelves' it's very clear where your mind is actually going. Get a grip!
Quote: "we're being pedantic."
Quite!Quote: "You see, not only does a high pass allow highs to pass, but mids, low mids, and some lows pass as well."
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Quote: "If someone can explain why my logic is faulty, I'll hear you out. I might even apologize."
'Mids, Low Mids, and some Lows' will pass.
Only if they are 'higher' than the threshold of the 'High Pass Filter'.
The real point is.. That the truly important content of the Audio, (the greater part you will hear) is 'high passed' on to the listener.
The bit you attenuate, cut off or dump, (and possibly cannot hear) is entirely irrelevant to the listener, as it is of little good use, if any at all. It isn't wanted, that's why its 'cut off'.
As a consequence, to suggest that you name the Filter, singularly in honour of the attenuated content you have cut and are going to dispose of, content which is completely irrelevant and unwanted, is actually to turn genuine logic entirely on its head.
The part of the Filtered Audio Material which is absolutely essential to the Production, is clearly, the actual desirable Musical content of primary aesthetic importance, and properly deserving for the action of the Filter to be named after.
This is clear, factual, and furthermore makes perfect sense designating and demarcating what is the overidingly preeminant issue of transcending vital importance.
When Mastering Music, it is the Artistic Musical Content that is always of uttermost relevance and significance.
It's essential to think like that, I believe.
Of course. It's entirely possible.
That the majority of those creating what passes for Music today.
Have got things completely the wrong way around, and been dumping the good high content, and Mastering the low rubbish.
Presumably, being unable to properly differentiate between the two, even utilising the superb Monitoring, commonly available today, in even the more modest Facilities.
This would indeed explain a great deal about the state of the Recording Industry, the reluctance of the Public to buy C.D.'s, and as a consequence, the phenomenon of ever declining sales.
Certainly, it would explain the predominance of Bass in certain genres.
If I may say so.I really think you should try to 'rise above' becoming annoyed quite so easily by such matters.
I take the view, that a man is only really as big inside as the things external to his life that can truly annoy him.
If you are annoyed by something that low. Well... I think you should really cut it out.
But I'll let it pass.
However. Passing onward to altogether higher things .
Quote: "Could you elaborate?"
Indubitably.There are times.
When we find ourselves not properly able to grasp something.
Therefore, it can be hugely helpful to go back to around about the time, whatever we can't understand occurred, or somewhat before, so we can better grasp the context and circumstance surrounding its emergence.
Those born into the former colonies, in nations with extremely limited historical roots, lacking inherent tap roots, and living on the surface roots of their emerging history as it were, are naturally less cognisant with the instinctive tendency to derive primary foundational knowledge from the unfathomable depths of the past.
But clearly, though limited in number they may be, in the former colonies there are those indeed that have travelled to Europe for longer than a week's traverse to absorb the combined cultures of the entire Continent; and furthermore, to both the Oriental and European mind alike, this concept is easily appreciable in regard to the development of all the history of humankind. Closely aligned to that endlessly unravelling saga, is of course, the continual development of language.
So if we want understand how and why a word is used in the particular way it is, or was, returning to the period in which it first appeared, or very commonly, the first time it appeared in published literature, and thus became more widely utilised in that singular manner, can be the most helpful thing to do.
Failing that, bringing the matter up on Brad Blackwood's Forum, will usually secure a correct understanding.
At times, I have confessed to long term colleagues and friends that feel I am a Gulliver, in a world of Lilliputians. This is because I utterly deplore the modern rise of the bureaucrat, administrator, bean-counter and the more slimy variety of lawyer.
It's because I really believe that in well run countries, businesses and in the world at large, we need truly competent leaders and managers, people with proper sense of values with a good overall perspective that can run things well, and wield tremendous power responsibly, without abusing it. People that are clearly focussed on the right things, that can really make things happen, and get things done.
The bureaucrat, administrator, bean-counter and slimy variety of lawyer however, all conspire with the minority interests of political correctness zealots, to blind our clear sense of vision, clip our widely outstretching wings, and prevent us from rising up in flight to be all that we have potential to be.
They are a complete irrelevance to all that is natural and right in real life, as it truly should be lived in all its glorious fullness.
For instance, they are the ones that would instinctively wish to fine and imprison, the inventor of Napster.
When someone with genuine vision really ought.
To have hired him to work for them.
They should. Have instinctively recognised, he had a genuine grasp of a future they couldn't begin to comprehend.
And actively used his skills, to create and shape the future for the better.
Instead of doing nothing and leaving that future.
Completely up for grabs.
And.Thus.. Passing on.
It is the Irish Clergyman.
Jonathon Swift to whom we should be indebted to, for our answer.
Gullivers Travels "The common size of the natives is somewhat under six inches high."
For here, in his use of the word 'high', it powerfully engages our imaginations to vividly comprehend the nature and characteristics of 'that' which is of 'another order below'.
The people he is describing that are in reality, somewhat less than the span of any real man's hand.
He is using satire to describe a 'type of person' that is commonly found in this world.
They seem to have bred inexorably since his time.
T. Hardy. Continued the trend Swift began
"The granary..stood on stone staddles, high enough for persons to walk under."
The point about the height of the stone saddles.
Was that their height enabled a separate space or room to exist clearly dividing what was important above, from what was necessarily below.
Presumably to assist in promoting an active air flow, and helpfully preventing the grain above from slowly rotting on the ground, as well as aiding the flow of its sale, packing and despatch from convenient points beneath.
By analogy, in Audio Recording & Mastering, keeping 'The Grain of the Music' clearly above many 'ground related pests' like frost damage, rats and mice, prevents the many issues and difficulties that can otherwise be encountered, which I trust we are all, only too well aware of.
The paramount advantages. Of this renowned cardinal concept.
Appertaining to 'differentiating and separating' 'various elements' of the 'total flow' of local traffic.
Is helpfully illustrated by viewing the regular driving habits of the average British Public Transport Employees.
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So when a 'High Pass Filter' is named as such.
The implementers of this useage are merely being faithful to the truly genuine sense of the original word as it was first used as a mater of historical fact, and also in accordance with its first use in wider published literature."As the OED is a historical dictionary, its entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English, in which only present-day senses are covered, and in which the most common meanings or senses are described first. For each word in the OED, the various groupings of senses are dealt with in chronological order according to the quotation evidence, i.e. the senses with the earliest quotations appear first, and the senses which have developed more recently appear further down the entry. In a complex entry with many strands, the development over time can be seen in a structure with several 'branches'."
high-pass adjective (Electronics) designating a filter that attenuates only those components with a frequency lower than some cut-off frequency.
high, adjective, adverb, & noun. /hVI/
[Old English hUah (hUag-) = Old Frisian hQch, Old Saxon, Old High German hZh (Dutch hoog, German hoch), Old Norse h
