Archive for tag: phase
How to Add a Subwoofer to Your Monitor System
February 7, 2009 Speakers, SubwoofersSo you want to add a subwoofer to your monitor setup? Studio subwoofers can be tricky things that require a little bit of audio soul searching, auditioning, and planning to pull off well. But, a well integrated sub can make a world of difference in the right circumstances. I, for example, just added a Mackie [...]
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How to Use Visual Audio Analyzers and Scopes
March 4, 2008 Plugins, VisualizationThis post focuses on ways to use visual audio scopes to gain more understanding about what’s going on in your audio. It’s important to state right off the bat that working with audio should primarily be an auditory experience. In general people won’t be looking at visual representations of audio as much as they will [...]
Read More »EQ Crash Course
February 5, 2008 UncategorizedThis post focuses on the basics of equalization. Equalization is something that most people are probably pretty familiar with on a basic level, having some EQ capacity in their car stereos and portable players. Essentially, EQ is cutting or boosting of frequencies or frequency ranges. There are fundamentally two kinds of equalization: graphic and parametric. [...]
Read More »Balanced vs. Unbalanced: Prepared for Rejection
January 23, 2008 UncategorizedThis post focuses on the differences between balanced and unbalanced connections. When I first started engineering my high school band, I didn’t know what the difference between balanced and unbalanced connections was. I used guitar cables to link up all of 1/4″ gear and routinely used impedance transformers to convert between XLR to 1/4″ unbalanced. [...]
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Stereo Microphone Techniques & Placement
January 18, 2008 UncategorizedThis post focuses on the various ‘standard’ ways to get a stereo image with microphones. A class-A stereo image is one of the holy grails of audio engineering. It’s easy to get a decent image, but to achieve a stereo image that condenses down to mono, sounds rich, and evenly captures the entire performance is [...]
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