


When you use phasing to your advantage, it can result in interesting sounds. In a music production context, phasing has noticeable influence on the sound quality of your audio, and it pops up in all sorts of productions-recording, beat making, sampling, live shows, and more. This can be a result of static delay between the signals, also called comb filtering, and can also come from extreme boosts when using non-linear phase EQs. Phasing can be defined as timing differences when combining identical (or nearly identical) signals. The most common problems are signals being completely out of phase (sometimes called reversed polarity), or resulting in unpleasant changes in sounds resulting from phasey, or comb-filtered audio. Without phase manipulation, we wouldn’t have stereo, flanging, reverb, and other interesting audio phenomena.īut phase relationships can also present problems. Phase relationships between similar signals are a source of endless fascination in music production.
