The Behringer X32 is a fully featured, 32-channel, 16-bus digital mixer with an abundant supply of built-in effects and an impressively extensive set of features. It is aimed primarily towards live sound, but is versatile enough to use in a studio session. One main successful point of design is the operation of channel processing.
Signal Processing:
The home screen of the Behringer X32 shows the channel configuration in the “Configuration” tab, complete with the individual stages of the signal processing. Built in visual support is booming and available at 11 points on the X32, through the use of the conducive “View” buttons. Once the button is pressed, all the essential parameters of the selected function are displayed, for example: “EQ”. This is notably helpful in the “Dynamics” section, as there are two encoders for the compressors and noise gate thresholds, available in the channel strip. Dynamics which are in use are represented by LEDs above and below the channel meter display, allowing the user to see which channels are using “Dynamic Processing”.
The channel EQ is designed with four bands, complete with full control of the parameters in which the user can operate using the three rotary encoders. Using either the High/ Low Cut, High/ Low Shelf, with two filter options for the parameters, the user can select any one of these with full adjustability. The X32 provides two ways to send signals from channels to monitor buses and effects units, including the four “Bus Send” encoders or the “Sends on Fader” feature. By pressing the “Sends on Fader” button, the input faders send the signal to the user’s chosen bus with the input fader displaying the selected bus for that channel and vice versa; If a mix bus is selected, the 16...
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...ain. Additionally, there are buttons to select the shelf, band or modes of the filters. The display screen shows a frequency response graph complete with numerical values for each parameter- across four subpages with the ability to reset the EQ. With the use of the utility button, the user can access another page to copy and paste EQ parameters between channels and to save or recall settings from a library.
Finally, the bus routing section has level controls to adjust the levels of four busses, while the rest are accessible in groups through buttons while the “View” screen (with numerical values as mentioned) includes options to switch bordering “Send Pairs” pre/post fader. Correspondingly, the main “Output” has level controls to adjust the level of the “Mono” bus which also has a “On/Off” button included alongside the “Stereo Bus” Pan and “On/Off” position.
An envolope is a tool that helps us automate aspects of a sound, It generates a slow and evolving waveform which can be used modulate different parameters of the synthesiser like volume, pitch and timbre. The ADSR envelopes stands for attack, decay, sustain and release. The Attack of an Envelope Is the time its takes for the sound to reach it's full volume. For example if the attack is short, it will reach it's full volume quicker whereas if the attack is longer it will take longer for the note to reach it's full volume.The decay of an envelope is how fast the sound drops after the note has reach it's full volume. The sustain of an envelope, is the volume of the note it stays at after the decay. The release it how quickly the note fades after the note has been relased, if the release time is short, then the fade will be very quick, oppositely if the release time is longer than the note will take more time to fade.
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Have you ever wondered how a record player works? Probably not. After all, who still listens to records? Surprisingly enough, turntables are making a come back. With the recent surge of interest in hip hop music, popular attention has been turned towards the turntable, used by DJs to provide beats, loops and scratching for virtually all of today's hip hop groups.
Most successful musicians know a hidden art carried out by the work of a good sound engineer; it is essential for a magnificent album. For the rest of us novice listeners and fans, we believe what we hear through our speakers or played over the radio are the true skilled professional musicians, soaring at their craft. Most contemporary music, from pop to R&B and acid jazz to the sophisticated realm of orchestral film scores, has been modernized by several inventions encased within the studio. The art of audio engineering has taken on new forms, from the nuts and bolts, "plug it in, and see if it works" era into the digital world, because of these wonderfully tragic solutions to a higher pace of life. A musician's art have been made solely because of it, and others have been destroyed and humiliated by it. The complex new inventions of technology shape the adaptive method of studio recording and production however caused a drastic negative musical degrading of our beloved art.
Most peoples extent of knowledge of car stereos is that of “ If I put the CD in the CD player then the sounds come out of the speakers.” However what they do not understand is that a car stereo is an intricate system of wires, amps, and acoustics that all come together to produce the right sound.
Polyphonic is operating on a “shoestring budget” of $150,000. The company is not helped by initial discussions about HSS with potential customers, which have resulted in cold receptions, at best, about the product’s potential application to the music processes despite its multiple strengths.
Siberia V2 gives a unique audio experience with its 50 mm drivers in varying tones: high, low and mid tones.
One of the most important things a DAW has to offer to be considered an industry standard is a accessible interface. Opening a DAW for the first time can be very daunting if the interface is not user friendly. This can be measured by counting how many clicks are needed to reach a certain feature of said DAW. Logic Pro is renowned for its conventional easy to learn, har...
for each pickup allows you to adjust the sound to the way you like it, while the
To record this album an EMI console, a 16-track tape machine, a Fairchild limiters, and an EMT plate reverb were used. There were also up to five or six tape machines doing various delays, reverb delays, ect. at one time. Alan remembers “on the mix having to borrow tape machines from other rooms to get delays and stuff.” (Anonymous. "Studio Legends: Alan Parsons on "Dark Side of the Moon")
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In today’s modern world the DJ has become a musician; the turntable, his instrument. It took fifteen years for this amazing resolution. DJ's have actually been around for years; mixing and scratching however, it did not come along until the late 70's or early 80's (“Disc Jockey 1”). A lot of people were doing this. But the main front line man was and still is Granmasterflash. Granmasterflash, one of hip-hop's founding fathers and the creator of the Quick Mix. He was the first person to change the arrangements of songs by using duplicate copies of records and manually editing/repeating the climatic part by rubbing the record back and forth (“Grandmaster Flash”). But now the DJ has changed. The kinds of DJ’s are different, the equipment is different, and the scratching is different.
Digital Broadcasting has thousands of new services to offer its viewers and listeners. Instead of pictures and sound being transformed into waves, the new technology turns them into a series of digits which are transmitted through the air and received by television or radio aerials. Digital Broadcasting is more efficient than analogue, giving space for six channels where analogue would give you one. Digital brings better picture, better sound quality and more choice and cinematic style. The new era gives the audience greater interaction with its broadcaster and also the opportunity to shop, book holidays, bank and play games all form remote control.