Describe the Flanger's thin line and its fading trail (#398)
- Sounds: the response is one thin line. Behind the Flanger's comb a faint trail fades with age, and the line fades out where its teeth pass faster than an eye follows. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- **The devices** (#398): in the graph a Phaser is a plate of 760x280 graph units in mustard, a
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Flanger one of 680x280 in steel blue, their inputs on the left and their output on the right.
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- **The screen** draws what is left of each frequency, 20 Hz to 20 kHz in octaves, +12 to -36
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dB: the notches of the Phaser, the comb of the Flanger, and the peaks feedback rings. A comb
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finer than the screen fills the columns it runs through instead of aliasing. It uses the
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dB: the notches of the Phaser, the comb of the Flanger, and the peaks feedback rings, as one
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thin line. A comb finer than the screen zigzags over the columns it runs through instead of
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aliasing. It uses the
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allpasses, the feedback and the delay of the worklet, at 48 kHz: the unit tests find the same
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dB as the worklet on a sine, within 0.005 dB.
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- The Flanger's comb is reckoned exactly per column, not read at points, and blurred over the
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delays of the last 1/20 s (#398). High up its teeth pass faster than frames are drawn, and
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sharp frames of them flickered. There they become a calm band from the deepest notch to the
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highest peak, while further down, where the eye can follow them, they stay sharp. The edges
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are drawn as smooth lines, not as one rectangle per column.
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- The Flanger's comb is reckoned exactly, through the ends of each column and the peaks and
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notches in it, not read at points (#398). Behind the line a faint **trail** shows what it swept
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over the last 1/20 s, and over the last 1/40 s once more, so it fades with age. High up its
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teeth pass faster than frames are drawn, and a sharp line of them would flicker. Where they
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move more than a quarter of a tooth within the trail, the line fades out, and from half a
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tooth on only the trail is left there: a calm band from the deepest notch to the highest peak.
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Where the eye can follow the teeth, the line stays sharp and moves. A Flanger that stands
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still has no trail.
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- Under it a **lane** shows where that goes over the first seconds of a sound: the Phaser's turn
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in Hz, the Flanger's delay in ms (up to 2.5, 5, 10 or 20). A light runs over the lane in real
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time and the response above is drawn where it is, so the notches swirl and the comb jets as
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