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Motion to Rename HPF and LPF

#61
obieito said:
Just for the sake of philosophy, to play a little, and because I mostly agree with the OP, let me point out that applying the same logic to your example, a coffee filter should be called a "WATER PASS FILTER"... Since what it does is letting the coffee infused water through but keeping out the coffee grounds themselves...
So I think you are mostly agreeing with the OP's opinion ;)
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You can look at it that way. But the part you want is what ends up in the cup. Another example: an oil filter yields (mostly) clean oil.
 
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lermgalieu said:
Disagree. It should be called a COFFEE FILTER because it allows COFFEE to pass through, not just water.
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Well, depends on your definition of coffee... When you buy it you call it coffee, what you get out is coffee-infused water but still near to 100% water with a little quantity of coffee stuff diluted in it.
The coffee grounds you bought as coffee, stay in the filter.
 
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obieito said:
Well, depends on your definition of coffee... When you buy it you call it coffee, what you get out is coffee-infused water but still near to 100% water with a little quantity of coffee stuff diluted in it.
The coffee grounds you bought as coffee, stay in the filter.
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I think we can all agree that your "coffee infused water" is commonly referred to as coffee throughout the entire world. Yes, coffee beans are also referred to as coffee, but if someone says they are drinking coffee we all know what they mean.
 
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KPopOnBass said:
It's a small thing, but I find the terms High Pass Filter and Low Pass Filter confusing. Every time I hear the terms, I have to think through what they're doing. I propose going back in time and popularizing them as Low Cut Filter and High Cut Filter! You know, name the filters after what they filter instead of what they don't filter.

I'm not an idiot (abundant life-choice counterexamples aside) and I have, like, totally serious degrees in engineering and stuff. I can figure out what these pedals do. They just need better names, IMHO. Just me? :laugh:
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Our 6-string band mates often have controls on the output portion of their tube amps called "Presence" and "Resonance". I think that works just fine, as they tell you exactly what they attenuate.

Just my $0.10 (unsolicited advice has risen in cost, due to inflation).
 
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KPopOnBass said:
It's a small thing, but I find the terms High Pass Filter and Low Pass Filter confusing. Every time I hear the terms, I have to think through what they're doing. I propose going back in time and popularizing them as Low Cut Filter and High Cut Filter! You know, name the filters after what they filter instead of what they don't filter.

I'm not an idiot (abundant life-choice counterexamples aside) and I have, like, totally serious degrees in engineering and stuff. I can figure out what these pedals do. They just need better names, IMHO. Just me? :laugh:
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I don't know, they always made sense to me: they tell you what passes the filter. Low pass? You get anything below the cutoff frequency. High pass? You get anything above.

But sometimes our brain gets stuck with some things and it's hard to explain why, like people who can't remember left/right or even east/west... or at what time we're supposed to meet to setup, but that might be a different kind of problem ;)
 
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Grahams Groove said:
Aside from maybe preferring "High Cut" and "Low Cut", what about HPF and LPF is counter intuitive when you consider all three words in the name of each of those devices?
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pass ... high pass low pass ... why the word pass ... what is being passed?

and does pass mean the frequency is added subtracted or something else?

how about bass cut or treble cut
 

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