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| | Moulton Laboratories :: About Comb Filtering, Phase Shift and Polarity Reversal |
 | | Because the phase shift is exactly 360°, which is functionally equivalent to a 0° phase shift, the original signal and the delayed signal overlay exactly and their amplitudes added together result in a doubling of overall amplitude at each point in the waveform (which results in an overall increase in amplitude of 6 dB). |
 | | First, the amount of phase shift varies for a given delay time as a function of frequency, so that lower frequencies have less phase shift, higher frequencies have more phase shift, and each frequency has a unique amount of phase shift. |
 | | One quirky part of this is that for any repeating wave shape, 360° of phase shift is the functionally the same as 0° of phase shift, so we usually don't worry about the multiples of 360°, just the number of degrees between 0 and 360. |
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