Week two was ELECTRIC - Posted on 2016-04-25 by Caroline Bokman

The book had a small chapter about electronics only 15 pages long- hz, khz, volts, amps, resistors etc. I thought the class would be short!   In the classroom we went over WAY more! Cables- balanced vs unbalances, speaker cables, trs cables, XLR cables, ground, sheild, electric / magnetic fields, line levels, (vocal, instrument, commercial line level, line level, and monitor level),  We looked at all the configurations, and unscrewed the cable ends to see how many wires and how they were set up inside the cable (!)    Then we went over...the need for preamps and di boxes, all 8000 plus buttons on the mixing board, general things about microphones ( phantom power/ non-phantom power), general things about monitors (active vs. passive) and headphones (how the wires give you left/ right), and where in the line to monitor your mix from the the board  with headphones, light switch dimmers in a studio, using different circuits for what, grounding with the earth vs grounding w/ isolation coils/ boxes... transformers.....computer set-ups, hard drives and backing up ideas, how drives get filled up and need defragmenting etc.... and we started to go over next weeks things: digital vs. analog sound, theory of sampling, bits and hz, file sizes created depending on the higher or lower sampling rate, on and on and on....It was a LOT of information, but our man Zack knows so much, and  is GREAT at explaining things, and gives very good examples. We had lots of questions, he covered it all!  We did not cover running speaker wire through potatoes, but my friend Sylvia Massey did in this video. Remember not to mess up your positive and negative charges!  Click here for Potato Filter