Handbook for Sound Engineers

832 Chapter 25 a jackfield, was and is exceedingly tedious, messy, expensive, and error prone. Four-track recording set the mold ...

Consoles 833 systems had come to fitful fruition. The in-line console includes all of a recording channel’s processing and all o ...

834 Chapter 25 sat there with all their inputs and outputs accessible by way of a jackfield for the prosperous or by small screw ...

Consoles 835 while across 10 k: it would be minus 12.22 dBm. But it’s still 0.775 Vrms. The reference level for zero impedance t ...

836 Chapter 25 A new term entered the audio design vocabulary: compensation. Compensation is the brutal slowing down of the ampl ...

Consoles 837 audio engineers alike. Slew rate is the speed (measured usually in volts per microsecond, V/μs) at which an amplifi ...

838 Chapter 25 microphone amplifier far outweighs the hassle of a similarly performing discrete transistor design, which in this ...

Consoles 839 Pragmatists, who close down the bandwidth of an amplifier as rapidly as possible outside the required passband, max ...

840 Chapter 25 ultimate state, though, the negative feedback on which the amplifier depends for predictable performance is now c ...

Consoles 841 inexorably toward the point where the total amplifier and network phase shift reaches 180° at the inverting input ( ...

842 Chapter 25 standard voltage-follower configuration and that this is the most critical configuration for stability, it is not ...

Consoles 843 25.7.12 Band Limiting One of the first great superficially appealing results of using the enormous feedback inheren ...

844 Chapter 25 So much for the expected result of improved tran- sient response through having a wide-open frequency response. A ...

Consoles 845 solid, infinite, immovable, dependable ground. It has many other names too: earth, 0 V, reference, chassis, frame, ...

846 Chapter 25 a good thing, in some instances it can merely serve to improve the matching and coupling of the RF source to the ...

Consoles 847 A system composed of many separately powered units will almost certainly hum, buzz, and sound gener- ally uneasy if ...

848 Chapter 25 individual stage supply decoupling is rendered a nicety rather than a necessity by the excellent power supply noi ...

Consoles 849 resulting in a fake ground potential 60 dB below the output of the amp. An earlier stage in the chain A1 (in this e ...

850 Chapter 25 25.8.4.5 Reactive Ground Effects Noise generation due to grounds is not limited to the resistance predominant in ...

Consoles 851 tame the spiky transients, the circuit becomes very complicated. Certain routing applications do implicitly require ...