Overall, writing music is pretty darn good playlist.

• Kashmir Hill 2/7
• Yann LeCun 3/4
• Shaun Maguire 1/4

EQ can simulate some limited subsets of effects of some reverbs, but, it cannot, even with modulation in time, cover what they do fully. The thing with reverb is that it introduces new sound. Some forms of reverbs are similar to delays with short delay times. If you look at spectrograms, both reverb and delay introduce new waveshapes to the picture. And EQ can only alter existing waveshapes, if that makes sense. (Not sure how to word this better).

Edit: adding delay here makes this all easier to understand, because if you take delay with long time, like 3 seconds, it is quite obvious that no amount of EQ can copypaste the sound into the time moment 3 seconds later right? And reverb basically has similar nature. It introduces soundwaves where they were not present before, so no amount of EQing can create them.

Yes. Blur kind of gradually spreads color of every pixel into all directions, reverb’s doing the same with sound. Did you know that the simplest type of reverb is delay with super short time? I would personally consider lossiness (or cutoff effect) of blur a side effect of pixel giving away a bit of it’s color to its surroundings. Filter on the other hand is a cutoff that just takes but doesn’t put it back somewhere else.

Definitely not what you’re asking for, but this is what I got reminded of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BzQ0ytaJtk 😅

I think blur can also be associated with reverb