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Justin CrooksJustin Crooks
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The goal of VBW > RBW is essentially to remove any significant filtering after the RBW. Our software is a little different in that we bypass VBW processing unless VBW < RBW or the average detector is used. So for Spike software, VBW equal to RBW is what you want.