Music Calculator

A musician hits a note on his or her guitar and the tuner tell them it’s flat. They believe what they see until they notice … Read more

At some point in our lives we’ve been in a room tweaking speaker positions until everything sounds right. You move your monitors around to achieve … Read more

You select your drivers after poring over datasheets. You run calculations for crossover frequency. You purchase inductor and capacitors. You build a cabinet with rigid … Read more

Until you’ve tried to align a PA system and found out what happens when the mix sounds muddy, it’s likely you never thought about time-of-flight … Read more

Your kick drum sounds like a hammer in isolation, but gets lost in mush when you bring up the overheads. You check levels…nothing seems amiss. … Read more

Maybe you’ve perfectly tuned a space for sound performance while testing…only to experience lost vocals when the bass kicks in. Where human voice resides feels … Read more

Did you ever mix something that’s tight sounding on your phone but muddier in your studio? It’s not always the speakers. Often its the room, … Read more

Most mixers concentrate on wall treatment and speaker placement, but they rarely thinks about the ceiling above them. A ceiling is an enormous acoustic mirror. … Read more

What about group delay? That’s how long it takes for different frequencies to move through a system. Ideally all the frequency reach your ears with … Read more

It all begins with a dream: My speakers will sound perfect. And for most DIY speaker projects, it ends there…in a crossover that sounds like … Read more

Ever had a speaker sounding real big and boomy when placed in one area of a big room? Or real thin in another? That’s not … Read more

Build a speaker that measures flat in anechoic chamber. But in your livig room, it sounds thin and bright. Most often, it’s not because of … Read more

A speaker might sound good at low levels but become harsh and metallic at higher level. Chances are it’s not a crossover frequency issue. It … Read more

With a transmission line speaker you get something special called quiet. It is quiet, detailed, and clean. No loose booms or slams from the bass. … Read more

Take a phase plug for instance; if the phase plug chokes off the air flow as it exits the driver frame, then all your handwork … Read more