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Signal Flow & The Audio Console
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Styles of Recording Music
~ 1920’s
✓ ‘live’ recording with all instruments in one, continuous performance
✓ i.e. ‘capturing a performance’
✓ mostly ‘distant’ micing to capture sound
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Typical Recording Session ~ 1937
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1930’s - present✓use of more than one microphone when recording
✓all instruments not present during original recording •“re-record” to add more instruments (“overdubbing”)
✓modify recording w/ addn’l sources (“effects/reverb”)
✓‘creating a performance’
Styles of Recording Music
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•musicians listen to previous recording…
•“new performance” is blended with the original performance
•…“play along
“The Sheik of Araby” - Sidney Bichet (1932)
•a new recording is made
“Overdubbing” = adding instruments after original performance
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Patent for the first ‘reverb chamber’ (1935)
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early RCA broadcast ‘mixer’ (~1940s)
first ‘console’ built for modern recording
(~1950)
The Audio Console
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takes input (source) signal…
▪ Amplifies = “volume” ▪ Processes = adjust “tone” ▪ Combines = “spatial
positioning” ▪ Balances = “blend” or “mix” ▪ Routes = outputs to
recorder, monitors, etc.
The Audio Console - Basic Functions
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⦿ “path” through a system
⦿ important in describing use or function
Signal Flow
Block Diagram • describes a complete system by breaking it into sections or
“blocks” • each “block” has a function and the diagram shows how they
are connected together • shows inputs and outputs
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Signal Flow & Block Diagram (Flowchart)
microphone speaker
variable (rotary) amp
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mic(source)
(pre) amp(input)
volume combine(mixer)
volume(output)
recorder(destination)
DISCRECORDER
Block Diagram of Early Recording System
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Which one of these shows the correct “signal flow”?
Block Diagram of Early Recording System (1920 - 30’s)
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⦿ basically the same “signal flow” as earlier recording systems...
preamp vol mixmic
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⦿ with some additional signal “blocks” added...
send
monitoring
return bus
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⦿ to create functionality in the modern “console”...
preamp volsend
mix bus
monitoring
return
console
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⦿ to create functionality in the modern “console”...
preamp volsend
mix bus
monitoring
return
console
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Typical Audio Console - Basic Signal Flow
input(s)output(s)
‘processing’
monitoring
“mic” = microphones“line” =
•electronic instruments (e.g. electric guitar)•effects (e.g. reverb)•recording systems
• recording systems
• monitoring• effects
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