Phaser Phasing was the next purely electronic effect after the wah- wah and fuzz box, and it originally set out to emulate tape phasing. In the phaser, a signal is again split onto two paths (like a chorus and flanger): one straight and the other...
Spatial Awareness Much of the contemporary applications of music technology have shifted away from the natural into, arguably, more creative and artificial-sounding recordings. You can, for instance, pan a completely dry sound to one side and pan the reverb to the other side to produce...
Natural space As you should be aware from the week one lesson on acoustics, when we experience a sound we are not only hearing it from the direct source, but also from the environment in which it is situated (reflections from walls, furnishings, outside etc)....
Compression The human ear uses compression for pretty much the same reasons that we do in music, that being to control the level of an audio signal. As you may already be aware, the concept is to simply boost those signals that are quiet and...
Equalization is the process by which an equalizer is used to either boost or cut different frequencies in an audio signal in order to change its tonal character. In mixing, the aim is to have the entire frequency spectrum shared comfortably by all instruments,...
The Stereo Field The term stereo, short for stereophonic, involves the reproduction of sound using two separate audio channels that are then presented to a pair of speakers far apart to recreate a natural panorama of sound that is analogous to how we perceive sound...
Now we have an environment that isn’t coloring what we hear we can start to look at how we can improve the mix itself. Subgrouping When you have finished recording all your parts and are ready to start mixing, it is a good idea to subgroup sections...
Room Shape The diagram depicted below illustrates three of the more typical room shapes: square, rectangular and L-shaped rooms. The most favourable positioning of the speakers within each space is shown. Uniformly square rooms are the least desirable room shapes for speaker orientations, since the production...
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