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Konturi samples released
New soundpack brand launches with five analogue-inspired sample collections.
Published 25/3/21
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Peluso revisit the U47
The company's most affordable take yet on Neumann's valve classic uses solid-state electronics.
Published 23/3/21
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Ableton Live 11 Beginner's Guide
Comprehensive video course on Ableton Live 11, one of the most popular and unique digital audio workstations for electronic musicians, is available from SOS Tutorials.
Published 18/3/21
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Acustica launch Sienna
Headphone correction and studio emulation plug-ins unveiled by Acustica Audio.
Published 18/3/21
Sample Rate Converter (SRC)
(SRC) A digital processor or computer algorithm able to convert digital audio signals recorded at one sample rate to a completely different sample rate, eg. from 96kHz to 44.1kHz. In the case of a downward conversion, the appropriate anti-alias filtering is applied to ensure the new file doesn't contain any source componets above half the new sample rate. For an upward conversion, the upper regions of the bandwidth in the new sample rate will carry no information as there was none available in the source file due to the restrictions of its lower sample rate. Not all SRCs are as accurate as they should be, but the best are essentially a perfect and transparent process.
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Mu:zines turns 5
The ambitious music magazine archive project celebrates its fifth birthday today.
Published 17/3/21
Turnover frequency
Relates to filters and equalisers and is defined as frequency where the response has risen or fallen by 3dB. Sometimes called the 'corner frequency'
Band-stop Filter
A filter that removes or attenuates frequencies in a defined range or bandwidth, while letting through those frequencies both above and below the band. A wider form of notch filter.
Notch Filter
A filter which only removes a very narrow band of frequencies, or even a single frequency in extreme cases. A notch filter has an extremely high Q value (narrow bandwidth).
SDC
Small Diaphragm Capacitor microphone — a microphone with a diaphragm diameter of between about 10 and 15mm
LDC
Large Diaphragm Capacitor microphone — a microphone with a diaphragm diameter of more than about 20mm
LU
LU — Loudness Units. A measure of loudness normalisation relative to the target loudness. If the integrated loudness of a track measured -21LUFS, but the target loudness was -23LUFS, the meter would show a +2LU discrepancy.
Baxandall
A type of simple audio shelf equaliser or bass/treble tone control invented by English electronics engineer Peter Baxandall (1921-1995).
Tone Control
In hi-fi equipment 'tone controls' typically refers to bass and treble shelf equalisers, often using the Baxandall design. it may also refer to a low-pass filter in guitars and other electronic instruments.
Minimum Phase
A simplistic definition would be type of filter design where the frequencies are delayed by the least possible amount in their passage through the filter, but some frequencies will acquite greater phase shifts than others. Most analogue filters us
Pre-ringing
Pre-ringing refers to an inherent character of the impulse response of linear-phase filters employed in D-A or A-D converters. In a conventional analogue or minimum phase filter, an input impulse signal will generate an output impulse response with a strong initial spike followed by a string of ripples of decrasing magnitude. In a linear-phase filter the impulse spike is preceded by a build-up of ripples in advance of the impulse arriving, and a symmetrical string of decaying ripples afterwards.