Handbook for Sound Engineers

892 Chapter 25 Hangup 1 is the interaction between frequency groups. Hanging on two control chains that operate at the same fre ...

Consoles 893 shifted around to the noninverting input of the op-amp. At minimum, the input attenuation is quite vicious while th ...

894 Chapter 25 25.11.28 A Practical EQ A three-section parametric EQ with additional versatile shelving-type high- and low-frequ ...

Consoles 895 expected of an inductor and capacitor combination—a slope of 12 dB/octave as opposed to a single-order effect of 6 ...

896 Chapter 25 Figure 25-71. Five-band equalizer circuit diagram. ...

Consoles 897 Figure 25-71. Five-band equalizer circuit diagram. Continued. ...

898 Chapter 25 alone sparked by the AM radio loudness wars of the ’60s and ’70s; the deleterious effect will have future musical ...

Consoles 899 tells the input attenuator to drop the input signal suffi- ciently. The whole circuit operates in check—the bigger ...

900 Chapter 25 across them is kept low (in this instance, 30 dBu, the lower the better) it can be quite acceptable for a lot of ...

Consoles 901 either the positive or negative peaks are more, some- times greatly, pronounced. Attack times are measured and quot ...

902 Chapter 25 changing and rapidly. They are independent of the kind of device doing the attenuation, whether it is a humble tr ...

Consoles 903 with side chain time constants optimized for that band of frequencies; this allows the highs to be optimally treate ...

904 Chapter 25 the discharge is removed; if there is no discharge path, the reservoir can’t discharge, the control voltage remai ...

Consoles 905 peaks are removed (brutally by a clipper or more subtly by a timed processor with short time constants), the averag ...

906 Chapter 25 25.12.2.2 Subtractive Feedback Gate or Expandor An alternative gating method cunningly uses a limiter, albeit wit ...

Consoles 907 which are those generally most predominant and are so controlling of the gain reduction. Major differences between ...

908 Chapter 25 25.12.5.1 rms Detection Hitherto, detection of signal levels in dynamics had been either peak or average. These w ...

Consoles 909 amplified instead. Yes, the degree of attenuation would become bigger than the corresponding changes in applied sig ...

910 Chapter 25 to some op-amps for glue. A simple, very low parts count compressor with all the active elements contained within ...

Consoles 911 to be thundering about. On a less technical and more economic level, it necessitates somewhat beefier and more seri ...