Audio Engineering

762 Chapter 27 27.2 Standard Levels and Level Meters ........................................................................ Su ...

Recording Consoles 763 as not, “ fray the nerves ” of those people working day after day in recording studios! Instead a lower l ...

764 Chapter 27 and meter are fed from the collector of TR a , which is a current source in parallel with Re. Because Re is a hig ...

Recording Consoles 765 To some extent, this is unjustifi ed because the VU may be used to monitor peak levels, provided the acti ...

766 Chapter 27 The peak program meter of the type used by the BBC is illustrated in Figure 27.4. Note the scale marked 1 to 7, w ...

Recording Consoles 767 BS4297:1968) defi ned the rise time of a BBC style PPM in terms of reading relative to 5-kHz tone-burst d ...

768 Chapter 27 loudness—leaving the operator to allow for peaks based on the known, probabilistic nature of real audio signals. ...

Recording Consoles 769 signal will create a single vertical line, and an out-of-phase mono signal will produce a horizontal line ...

770 Chapter 27 27.3 Standard Operating Levels and Line-Up Tones .................................................... Irrespectiv ...

Recording Consoles 771 27.4 Digital Line-Up .................................................................................... ...

772 Chapter 27 it is important to understand the way in which these blocks fi t together. This is usually termed system architec ...

Recording Consoles 773 Clearly inputs 7 to 11 are all concerned with the drums. Once these channels have been set so as to give ...

774 Chapter 27 27.5.5 Effect Sends and Returns Not all the functions required by the balance engineer can be incorporated within ...

Recording Consoles 775 route signals to the tracks of the multitrack tape machine. From an electronic point of view, the essenti ...

776 Chapter 27  20  (^50)  3 VU Gain hf mf lf Eq bypass Mic/ line Effectsend 1 Effectsend 2 Pan Pan  f Q Tape return hf lf ...

Recording Consoles 777 tended to provide an entirely separate mixer (usually to the right of the group and main faders) devoted ...

778 Chapter 27 Input strip Limited EQ Monitor bus Monitor bus Groups Masters Tape returns Master outputs Monitor outputs Tape ou ...

Recording Consoles 779 27.5.9 Equalizers For a variety of reasons, signals arriving at the recording console may require spectra ...

780 Chapter 27 So, the fi rst stage of any audio mixer is a so-called microphone preamplifi er, which boosts the signal entering ...

Recording Consoles 781 For more demanding studio applications, a more complex microphone preamplifi er is demanded. First, the s ...