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| | Today's Review | X-Clip Dual Microphone Holder
By Rob Tavaglione
Most everyone agrees that capturing a snare drum with a Shure SM57 will work nicely. And others know that adding in a small diaphragm condenser, like the AKG C451, will sound even better (with correct placement) … now there's a real solution (other than gaffer's tape). More » |
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| | Today's Blog | Innovations, The Manufacturer's View: Testing Audio ADCs and DACs—Expert Advice from Audio Precision
By David Matthew
In 2015, there's not much question about audio storage, transmission or streaming: It's digital. Apart from rare sightings of vinyl or open-reel tape in boutique sales or creative enclaves, audio is digital. Done right, digital audio is flexible, robust and of very high quality. PCM recording, lossless surround formats and even lossy compression (at least at high data rates) provide the soundtrack for our lives.
But, of course, sound in air is not digital. The pressure waves created by a human voice or a musical instrument are recorded after exciting a transducer of some sort, and the transducer responds with an electrical voltage that is an analog of the pressure wave. Likewise, at the end of the chain, the digitized audio signal must eventually move air, using a voltage that is the analog of the original sound wave to drive a transducer that creates a pressure wave.
Near the beginning of a digital chain, then, we must use an ADC (analog- to-digital converter) to transform the analog electrical signal to a digital representation of that signal. Near the end of the chain, we must use a DAC (digital-to-analog converter) to transform the digital audio signal back into an analog electrical signal. Along with the transducers, these two links in the chain—the ADC and the DAC—are key in determining the overall quality of the sound presented to the listener. More »
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| | Today's Video | Eventide CrushStation For H9 Harmonizer Demo
From Eventide: “The CrushStation turns your Eventide H9 stompbox into an overdrive/distortion command center with controls that drive your tone anywhere from a creamy saturation to a brutal sonic assault with everything in between.
Use Eventide Harmonizer technology to crush some octaves into the mix, or turn up the Sag to bring the whole sound to its knees. As an added bonus, CrushStation is a true stereo distortion pedal.
‘CrushStation Nation’ song by Pete Bischoff and Alan Chaput ‘Slow Blues Backing Track in E’ provided by RandomJammer” More » |
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