Phase Response

Definition: The phase response of a filter is defined as the phase of its frequency response:

From the convolution theorem, we can see that the phase response is the phase-shift added by the filter to an input sinusoidal component at frequency , since

The topics touched upon in this section are developed more fully in the next book [65] in the music signal processing series mentioned in the preface.

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written by Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.