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DrWho wrote:
 I should mention that there is absolutely no doubt that the BFD is NOT introducing any kind of ringing when the filter is boosted. What we're seeing is precisely the effects of the window used to generate the waterfall...not what's happening in real life. |
That's not correct. The windowing effects are the cause of the response across the freq band not dropping sharply to the noise floor when no filters are active, but every EQ filter (gain or cut) rings at its centre frequency, the higher the Q (the narrower the bandwidth) the longer it rings. The ringing is easily observed in the impulse response by setting up the BFD in loopback and making a measurement with a sharp filter, it is more obvious with boost than cut but both ring. It is because of this time domain behaviour that EQ filters are able to counteract the ringing of modes, the decay of the EQ filter's attenuation over time matches the decay of the mode's gain, when the filter is properly set to match the mode's bandwidth and gain.