SOUND ON SOUND
Hugh Robjohns has been Sound On Sound's Technical Editor since 1997. Prior to that he worked in a variety of (mostly) sound-related roles in BBC Television, ending up as a Sound Operations Lecturer at the BBC's technical training centre.
He continues to provide audio consultancy and bespoke broadcast audio training services all over the world, lectures at professional and public conventions, and occasionally records and masters acoustic and classical music too!
I’ve noticed that the signal coming from the mixer’s direct outs is low, is it a problem of the mixer or the interface?
If you are fascinated to learn how the great engineers and producers created the classic recordings we all cherish, this is a book you’ll want to read from cover to cover.
With a quartet of excellent preamps and 32‑bit floating‑point recording, Tascam’s FR‑AV4 could be a videographer’s dream...
The TFP‑1 Tall & Fat pedal is designed specifically to emulate the dynamic behaviour and tonal character of the Hammond AO28 amplifier found at the heart of revered B3, C3 and A100 console organs.
Lots of useful boxes now allow you to send analogue audio signals over Ethernet‑style Cat cables. But sadly there’s little progress towards wiring standards...
Is a genuine limiter just a compressor with a high ratio, or are there other differences, such as the attack times, or the nature of level detection?
I’ve been using a Zoom F6 [multitrack digital recorder] to record our band sessions, and with good results, but we’re finding its six tracks to be limiting, and want to add more.
I’ve introduced a Line 6 HX Stomp into my pedalboard (it’s really good!). Trouble is, the USB connection is introducing a noticeable ground hum when connected.
Concluding our series on advanced stereo mic techniques, we explore binaural recording, disc‑shaped baffles and dummy heads, as well as a clever process called ‘Stereo Shuffling’.
Everything going to the Mackie over USB (on channels 3+4) is coming back on the computer input channels 1+2, whether it’s the metronome or playback of other tracks. Can you help?