AET 1380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mixing Console, Subwoofer, Overdubbing

• School: Belmont University
• Department: Audio Engineering Technology
• Course: AET 1380
• Professor: Time Brown

Document Summary

Surround speaker setup: surround sound, designed to envelope the listener in the audio, 5. 1 is seen in general use for home theaters. Headphone monitoring: eliminates room acoustics, closed back, no bleed, open back, bleed. Consoles: substantially larger, provide many processing functions, often, contain computer assisted functions, not portable. Where do we use consoles & mixers: studios, home, personal, professional, broadcast, live performance, film sound mixing. Analog consoles: all working with the sound in an analog state, no conversion to digital. Digital consoles: performance rivaling large analog consoles, but with a much smaller footprint, software upgradeable, almost portable. Need for audio console: using multiple microphone, one mic per instrument, adding processing" to signal, eq, compression, etc. Adding" effects: reverb, delay, etc, separate control of recording & monitoring, recorder, monitors, headphones. Basic console functions: amplifies, adjusts incoming signal volume ( pre-amp", processes, adjusts tone" (eq) or dynamics" (compressor, balances/blends, mix ( fader", combines, spatial positioning ( pan-pot", routes, recorder, effects, monitors, headphones.