never used anything other than auto m8 and as for what it does im clueless im afraid
Thank you gibertini, after reading this I will stick to auto as I am still none the wiser

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-off
Roll-off is a term commonly used to describe the steepness of a
transmission function with
frequency, particularly in
electrical network analysis, and most especially in connection with
filter circuits in the transition between a
passband and a
stopband. It is most typically applied to the
insertion loss of the network, but can in principle be applied to any relevant function of frequency, and any technology, not just electronics. It is usual to measure roll-off as a function of
logarithmic frequency, consequently, the units of roll-off are either
decibels per
decade (dB/decade), where a decade is a 10-times increase in frequency, or decibels per
octave (dB/8ve), where an octave is 2-times increase in frequency.
The concept of roll-off stems from the fact that in many networks roll-off tends towards a constant gradient at frequencies well away from the
cut-off point of the frequency curve. Roll-off enables the cut-off performance of such a filter network to be reduced to a single number. Note that roll-off can occur with decreasing frequency as well as increasing frequency, depending on the
bandform of the filter being considered: for instance a
low-pass filter will roll-off with increasing frequency, but a
high-pass filter or the lower
stopband of a
band-pass filter will roll-off with decreasing frequency. For brevity, this article describes only low-pass filters. This is to be taken in the spirit of
prototype filters; the same principles may be applied to high-pass filters by interchanging phrases such as "above cut-off frequency" and "below cut-off frequency".