Zeros on [b,a] output of butter filter
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Shaula Garibbo
on 20 Jan 2020
Commented: Star Strider
on 21 Jan 2020
Hi. I'm trying to create a low-pass filter for a large collection of audio files to make some room on my hard drives. I'm using the butter filter as follows:
fn = fs/2; %(fs = 32000)
fc = 125/fn; %normalised passband frequency = 0.0078
fz = 135/fn; %normalised stopband frequency = 0.0084
[n, wn] = buttord(fc,fz,3,60); %(n = 60, wn = 0.0078)
[b,a] = butter(n, wn, ftype);
But the 'b' output component is always made up of zeros (I just get blank graphs on the freqz plots).
I suspect I have misunderstood something along the line, but I am overall aiming for a filter that reads in the 32kHz audio file, and removes all frequencies over 125Hz, as I do not need them for my analysis. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Star Strider
on 20 Jan 2020
The filter is unstable. This can easily be remedied by converting to zero-pole-gain realization, and then second-order section implementation:
ftype = 'low';
fs = 32000
fn = fs/2; %(fs = 32000)
fc = 125/fn; %normalised passband frequency = 0.0078
fz = 135/fn; %normalised stopband frequency = 0.0084
[n, wn] = buttord(fc,fz,3,60); %(n = 60, wn = 0.0078)
[z,p,k] = butter(n, wn, ftype); % Use Zero-Pole-Gain Representation
[sos,g] = zp2sos(z,p,k); % Second-Order Section For Stability
figure
freqz(sos, 2^14, fs) % Filter Bode Plot
Then use:
signal_filtered = filtfilt(sos,g,signal);
to do the actual filtering.
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