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The History Of Surround Sound
Surround sound has been around for over 80 years and The Disney studio’s animated film Fantasia used surround sound for the first time in 1940. Surround sound is a technique for improving the clarity and depth of sound reproduction by employing several audio channels from speakers positioned around the listener. The initial multichannel audio application…
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The Loudness Wars
“The Loudness Wars” is a trend of raising the audio levels in a recorded piece of music. Increasing loudness in music was first documented in the 1940’s. The topic of loudness was re-visited with the arrival of digital signal processing as it was able to achieve a more significant loudness. The capacity to alter volume…
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Prominent Mixing Engineers: Bob Clearmountain
Bob Clearmountain has collaborated with many of music’s biggest artists since the mid 70s, including The Rolling Stones, David Bowe, Tina Turner, and many more. He got his start in the music industry’s technical side by working out of his home studio. During his teen years Bob was the bassist in a bar band. His…
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The history and development of Equalization
Stereo graphic equalizer File:Graphic_equalizer.jpg Equalisation (EQ) is used in music production to adjust different frequencies in sound. It allows you to rectify any imperfections and maintain balance in your music. The first use of equalization was to rectify uneven frequency and response of telephone lines and electric systems. Much later on equalization was used in…
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History of stereophonic reproduction
Stereophonic sound system, sound recording and reproduction technology that employs two or more independent channels of information for a more multi-directional sound. Two microphones are strategically placed relative to the sound source during two-channel stereo recording, with both recording concurrently. The two recorded channels will be comparable, but they will have different arrival times and…
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Mixing with a reference
A reference mix is a commercial release that has been mixed and mastered in the same style/genre that you are attempting to accomplish. It’s a good way to make sure mixes sound as good in quality as releases that are commercially successful. When you’ve been working on a track for a long period of time,…