This post was first published in March 2014 at projectstudiohandbook.com/PSHforum
We've been working on our sound theory videos recently. We really should have kicked off PSHB with them but for some reason we decided that audio interconnection was a subject that hadn't been handled in its totality well on the web and it would be a good way to learn how to make video tutorials.
We figured that if they didn't turn out too good, it wouldn't matter because people wouldn't watch them much anyway!
Well, it's possible that those who are only interested in interviews with production stars, or with how to get a good mix (aren't we all!), or which is the best plate reverb, may not be that keen to watch a series on sound wave theory, but without an excellent knowledge of the subject, NOTHING else makes any sense.
If you have a good working knowledge of what sound is, and have a way of representing it and its behaviour in your head, then you're going to be OK. But if you can't 'picture' what happens to a complex sound when it passes through a filter, or don't understand how amplitude is represented bi-polar in a waveform diagram, then you're going to hit a brick wall at some point when you're engineering or mixing.
Just explaining that sound is not a 'thing', but a property of the medium it is propagating in, is really challenging without resorting to deep technical language. And as you know this is not what we are about. We want to equip project and home studio owners with ENOUGH theory to help them make great recordings.
For example, have you thought about how you explain how sound travels faster through solid objects than air, when experience tells you that solid objects are used for sound proofing?
We think we have some excellent ways of explaining the theory which aren't confusing, make for easy understanding, and will help us all towards a deep understanding of what all those plug-ins and processors are actually doing to our music.
We hope to have the first three videos done for middle to late March (this month), and even if this is stuff you already know, that you will find them interesting.
So they will be ..
1) Introduction to the series
2) What is sound? (sound waves in the air, pressure, frequency, amplitude,etc)
3) Air, electrical and magnetic pressure sound waves
You may have already noticed that we have completed the ones on dynamic range, and loudness, but we will make a new edit of the one on phase (which was created for the interconnection series), with some additional material related to sound wave theory.
As ever, we'll let you know when they are posted, so if you haven't done so already don't forget to subscribe .. http://www.projectstudiohandbook.com/su ... index.html
Thanks for reading.
We've been working on our sound theory videos recently. We really should have kicked off PSHB with them but for some reason we decided that audio interconnection was a subject that hadn't been handled in its totality well on the web and it would be a good way to learn how to make video tutorials.
We figured that if they didn't turn out too good, it wouldn't matter because people wouldn't watch them much anyway!
Well, it's possible that those who are only interested in interviews with production stars, or with how to get a good mix (aren't we all!), or which is the best plate reverb, may not be that keen to watch a series on sound wave theory, but without an excellent knowledge of the subject, NOTHING else makes any sense.
If you have a good working knowledge of what sound is, and have a way of representing it and its behaviour in your head, then you're going to be OK. But if you can't 'picture' what happens to a complex sound when it passes through a filter, or don't understand how amplitude is represented bi-polar in a waveform diagram, then you're going to hit a brick wall at some point when you're engineering or mixing.
Just explaining that sound is not a 'thing', but a property of the medium it is propagating in, is really challenging without resorting to deep technical language. And as you know this is not what we are about. We want to equip project and home studio owners with ENOUGH theory to help them make great recordings.
For example, have you thought about how you explain how sound travels faster through solid objects than air, when experience tells you that solid objects are used for sound proofing?
We think we have some excellent ways of explaining the theory which aren't confusing, make for easy understanding, and will help us all towards a deep understanding of what all those plug-ins and processors are actually doing to our music.
We hope to have the first three videos done for middle to late March (this month), and even if this is stuff you already know, that you will find them interesting.
So they will be ..
1) Introduction to the series
2) What is sound? (sound waves in the air, pressure, frequency, amplitude,etc)
3) Air, electrical and magnetic pressure sound waves
You may have already noticed that we have completed the ones on dynamic range, and loudness, but we will make a new edit of the one on phase (which was created for the interconnection series), with some additional material related to sound wave theory.
As ever, we'll let you know when they are posted, so if you haven't done so already don't forget to subscribe .. http://www.projectstudiohandbook.com/su ... index.html
Thanks for reading.
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