Graphic Delay Equalizer

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A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa

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2019-05-01

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en

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5

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44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019; Brighton; United Kingdom; 12-17 May 2019 : Proceedings, pp. 8018-8022, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

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A graphic delay equalizer based on a high-order nonparametric allpass filter design is proposed. Command points at the centers of octave frequency bands are connected with polynomial interpolation to form a continuous target group-delay curve as function of frequency. The required number of all-pass sections depends on the area under the target curve. The group-delay area at low audio frequencies is small due to the linear frequency scale, so only a few allpass sections can be assigned there, which reduces the accuracy. Design accuracy can be improved by adding a constant delay to the target curve, which increases the area. Two use cases are presented: the group-delay equalization of a multi-way loudspeaker and the linearization of the phase response of a regular magnitude-only graphic equalizer. The graphic delay equalizer can be used to enhance the perceptual quality of audio systems or to produce audio effects.

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Delays, Equalizers, Graphics, Loudspeakers, Acoustics, Interpolation, Audio systems, delay systems, equalizers, phase distortion, psychoacoustics.

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Rämö, J & Välimäki, V 2019, Graphic Delay Equalizer . in 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019; Brighton; United Kingdom; 12-17 May 2019 : Proceedings ., 8682949, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE, pp. 8018-8022, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Brighton, United Kingdom, 12/05/2019 . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682949