When you are mixing audio it is easy to end up with a signal that is too hot. How do you keep a track of what is happening so that you can ensure consistency throughout your mix? When it comes to ...

My current audio projects have me thinking about interface levels and decibels, and I know a lot of you out there are uncertain about them. Here’s what you need to know. First off, you need to know ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The unbridled development of radio broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s demonstrated the need for ...

One in a series of short audio tips that have appeared in the Alabama Broadcasters Association “Monday Morning Coffee and Technical Notes” e-newsletter. It’s easy to understand a correlation of the ...

The author is technical publications manager and a senior technical writer at Audio Precision in Beaverton, Ore. When reduced to its basics, the process of audio test and measurement is concerned with ...

A level meter is needed, for example, for visualizing clipping on recorders or transmission lines, or in signal processing. At the same time, level meters reveal too-low levels, which make optimum use ...

Music labels and equipment suppliers hope that high-resolution-audio formats, such as DVD-Audio and SACD (Super Audio CD), will be the latest in a string of mostly successful upgrade “pitches” ...

The latest salvo in this endless war comes from the forums of audio enthusiast site diyAudio (via Tom’s Hardware ), where a forum member by the name of Pano devised a blind test to look at how much ...