Studio Electronics Boomstar Manual
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Filter Talkers
Filter Talkers
6.1 Bace
(vstace @ Gearslutz.com)
MOOG:
creamy with great definition in the lower registers;
303:
mid range pronounced with clean clear resonance, squelchy;
ARP:
Similar to Moog but less creamy and more grit, woolly;
SEM:
powerful mids, not as deep as Moog but round and punchy, sinuous,
searing.
6.2 Drew Neumann
(droo @ Gearslutz.com)
The biggest differences between these filters are noticeable at higher
resonance settings--that’s where most filters reveal their character, but there’s
more:
The
Moog
ladder has wonderful overdrive into the filter, wide ranging
resonance (which does reduce gain a little bit as resonance is increased)
and a sharp -24db slope. Warm and fat.
The
303
is similar to the ladder, but one of the stages uses a different
capacitor, and the resonance is chirpy and mainly available in higher
frequencies. It’s a bit buzzier than the Moog, and the cutoff slope isn’t quite
as sharp. Acidy is right.
The
ARP
filter is an integrator cascade--resonance is available over the
entire range, and is quite pure sounding (sine going to nearly triangle
