Audio 101 Sound Mixing Seminar with Buford Jones, Day TWO

Audio 101 Class Notes Sound Mixing Seminar Notes with Buford Jones Day TWO An Audio Mixer defined: "The Artist bakes the cake and the Audio Mixer serves the cake." Day two was more practice than talk. We spent several hours taking prerecorded drums from Protools and playing them back through the board separated by channel. I personally used the Interactive Frequency Chart to play with accenting key frequencies within...
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Audio 101 Sound Mixing Seminar with Buford Jones, Day One

Audio 101 Class Notes Sound Mixing Seminar Notes with Buford Jones Day ONE An Audio Mixer defined: "The Artist bakes the cake and the Audio Mixer serves the cake." Board Recordings If you set your gain structure right, start with a room that has been EQ set with a Flat Frequency Response, and balance your levels right, you should...
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Audio Tutorials

Audio 101 Audio Tutorials Lynda.Com has many great Audio Tutorials.  Phase Cancellation Microphone Types Electromagnets are the basis for microphones and loudspeakers and many other devices we use in audio. Excess electrons also escape power chords and end up in mic cables which is why you should try to run your power chords separate from mic cables and not side by side. Here is an interesting study of...
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Audio 101 Class Notes System Design Basics

Audio 101 Class Notes System Design Basics Myers Sound Seminar with Buford Jones System Basics  In any Sound Reinforcement System there are many complicated ways to hook up a sound system and layers and layers of products you can learn about. The better you understand these things the better you will be able to set up a system...
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Audio 101 Definitions

Audio 101  Definitions Study Transducer: refers to any device which changes one kind of energy into another. A Microphone changes sound pressure waves (Acoustical Energy) into equivalent audio signal (Electrical Energy). A Loudspeaker does the opposite. Sources: Anything that supplies sound to an environment. Amplifier:...
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