Music Calculator

The other way to have a heart attack is having everything look okay on the digital wave form but seeing it all distorted on the … Read more

This might be confusing as you hear something sounding right on screen and wrong when its printed. More often than not, this isn’t because of … Read more

When you download a song, do you ever notice that tin-can sound? No, it’s not your headphones; that’s the limitation of the bitrate. Using aggressive … Read more

It’s easy to know what I mean: you’re capturing a quiet source somewhere and the room refuse to stay silent. You get it to record; … Read more

It would be simple if you could just generate some sound and see how long it takes until you hear an echo of yourself. That’s … Read more

A linear sweep move forward by a constant number of hertz per second. On paper, this seems perfectly reasonable. From zero to ten seconds, if … Read more

When this occurs, you pressed record too early in the recording or did not let the room finish fading before stopping the recording. How long … Read more

When you look at a spectrum analyzer, you’ll see peaks of data, but perhaps not know they’re limited by the number of samples provided to … Read more

There is a nice smooth transfer function trace on your screen. Phase are handled and magnitude response is flat. You look at the EQ moves … Read more

What is this? A frequency analyzer shows you a peak rising then falling like a mountain range. Where’s the exact location of the bass note … Read more

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