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Matt Gillette
May 1st
3-5PM
Lesson 5
Apparently knowing where your signal is coming from, where its going, and whats happening along the way makes you an engineer.
Patch bays have 3 categories: open, full-normalled, half-normalled.
Patch bays take a signal from a central point and sends it to other gear in your setup.
An audio signal is a representaion of sound waves in a different form, typically an electric voltage, but can be magnetic.
.Signal flow is just as it sounds, the path a signal takes from the source to the speaker or recording device.
SMPTE timecode keeps the audio, video,film, in sync with each other.
Offset times start at different points in the project other than just 0:00
timecode levels needs to be adjusted for different situations.
when copying video put it through a black burst to avoid sync nightmares.
When syncing a digital device to an analog best use a DAW to keep it in sync.
Amplification uses either ac or dc current.
an operational amp is a high gain, high bandwidth amp thast has high input impedance and low output impedance.
An equalizer is a frequency-discrimination amp.
Summing amp: combines any number of inputs into a single output signal bus while providing a high degree of isolation between them.
Distribution amp distributes signal from one device to several other.
Power amps boost the audio output level.
Recording process: recording, overdubbing, mixdown.
When recording dont overload (red line) each track.
Overdubbing;instruments added later.
Aux sends, route and mix signals from one or more strips to the various effects output sends.
Be sure to ground things properly to avoid unwanted noise.
Automations allows to you adjust levels of output drawing it in the DAW.
