Audio Engineering

742 Chapter 25 25.4.1 Velocity The open or free-air headphone, known as the velocity type, sits just away from the ear fl ap, of ...

Headphones 743 25.4.3 Intra-Aural Another category that has been recently commercialized is the intra-aural type, which actually ...

744 Chapter 25 air, modifi es the frequency response as perceived by the ear. This situation is additionally confused by the fac ...

Headphones 745 5-kHz boost, a dip around 8 kHz, and all sorts of peaks and dips above 8 kHz. For a natural sound balance with he ...

746 Chapter 25 and given the transducer technology, it would be perfectly feasible to retain the signals in digital form from mi ...

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Tape Recording Richard Brice 26.1 Introduction Magnetic recording underpins the business of music technology. For all its “ glit ...

750 Chapter 26 in the playback head causes a current to fl ow in the head’s coil. This is applied to an amplifi er to recover th ...

Tape Recording 751 which the magnetic patterns on the tape are converted back to an audio signal suitable for subsequent amplifi ...

752 Chapter 26 ferrous material remains magnetized with the residual induction B4. This remaining force is referred to as remnan ...

Tape Recording 753 on the audio signal, thereby biasing the audio signal portion of the overall magnetic effect into the initial ...

754 Chapter 26 induced current in the playback head are heavily distorted with respect to frequency and must both be equalized. ...

Tape Recording 755 fl utter. However, these onomatopoeic terms relate to comparatively coarse effects. What is often less apprec ...

756 Chapter 26 26.8 Recording Formats—Analogue Machines ............................................................ Early tape ...

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758 Chapter 26 Table 26.2 Major analogue recording formats Tracks Format Medium/speed Application (^2) ½  stereo ½  7.5–30 ips ...

Tape Recording 759 26.8.2 Analogue Multitrack Tape Machines As mentioned earlier, analogue multitrack machines betray their qual ...

760 Chapter 26 the record button is engaged on the tape transport buttons) switch the track to record. The mixer also incorporat ...

Recording Consoles Richard Brice 27.1 Introduction This chapter is about recording consoles, the very heart of a recording studi ...