Train your ears in just minutes a day: https://quiztones.com/ Get Unlimited Premium Mix Training: https://theproaudiofiles.com/members An in-depth tutorial on phase. Is it timing difference or polarity? What about comb filtering? What is a linear phase EQ? Learn more here: http://theproaudiofiles.com/phase/ --- Tutorial Breakdown: Signal Phase - What's the deal? - Why does it matter? - What tools are available? - In-phase vs. Out-of-phase? - "Kind of" In-phase? - "Sort of" Out-of-phase? Phase is complicated — Not just In-phase or Out-of-phase Signal processors can effect phase — Phase distortion Good news: humans cannot perceive signal phase differences in some cases Bad news: other cases... Signal phase is complicated — Phase is frequency dependent Are signal processors going to screw up my mix? — Linear phase processors Linear phase — What's with the name? Non-linear phase — Are there any drawbacks or trade-offs? Is a signal phase shift the equivalent of a time shift, just without the shift in time? — That doesn't seem so bad It is more complicated than that — Phase is frequency dependent Linear phase — What's with the name? — Non-linear phase Are there any drawbacks or trade-offs? Linear Phase — Processing results in a constant time shift for all frequencies — Relationship between frequencies is not distorted Trade-off — Time delay (Latency) When are linear phase processors useful? — When you don't want the phase relationship between different frequencies to be distorted — When a little latency doesn't hurt anything — Master Bus — Compensate for latency