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!
Building on Prism's high‑end converter range, the ADA‑128 caters for those working with high channel counts and multiple signal types.
I recently got a Zoom F8n Pro recorder and noticed when using phantom-powered mics the level jumps with a loud audible thump on headphones. Is this normal?
Once again, Zoom raise the bar for high‑quality, 32-bit affordable handheld recorders.
Why would you want to play around with the filtering characteristics of a D-A converter?
If you want to identify studio equipment that’s susceptible to grounding problems, a simple DIY project based on a wall‑wart PSU can help.
I’m trying to drive my Rupert Neve Designs 5057 Orbit summing mixer for some transformer saturation warmth, but I run into digital distortion before the levels are anywhere near to clipping the Orbit. What am I getting wrong?
The Nagra VI is a visually stunning, operationally simple, and a technologically versatile 8‑track digital audio recorder, derived from a long genealogy of superb‑sounding and beautifully engineered machines...
This 290‑page book, published a few months ago, is the latest addition to the Focal Press Perspectives On Music Production series.
I am trying out an ART Voice Channel, which has some interesting features, one of which is a dial to vary the microphone impedance continuously from 3kΩ down to 120Ω. So I have been testing this with a bunch of dynamic and capacitor mics...
In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the AES, President Bruce Olson talks to Hugh Robjohns about their history, their role in developing standards across the audio industry and their entrance requirements for new members.