Audio Jargon

There is so much jargon or just key words that people bandy about expecting everyone else to know what they mean. Here I will mention some of them, particularly the one I use and give a brief explanation of what they mean and if they are important to you.
Workshop on Violin amplification
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This workshop was started for the Balzin' in Beauly Festival 2008. I has been refined and expanded for this website.
To understand how to amplify a...
Workshop on Feedback
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Feedback.
Feedback is the disturbing howling sound heard when a microphone is too close to a loudspeaker. To be more accurate; the sound being prod...
Which amplifier?
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A good question and perhaps one that you need to answer yourself. The point of an amplifier is to make the sound of your instrument louder. Here I am ...
What is a Contact Microphone?
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What is a Contact Microphone?
Microphones are transducers; this means they change one form of energy into another. Microphones change acoustic ener...
Volume/gain/level/attenuation controls
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These are terms that are often used interchangeably. When any signal is input to a device, mixer/amplifier, it must be increased in size in order that...
Microphone Types
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Microphone types.
This workshop will briefly explain how different microphones work with a short comparison between types. It follows on to describe ...
Jack input/XLR input/Combo input
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These are connection sockets on amplifiers or mixers. Jack and XLR are types of audio connector. I will start off by describing the jack plug, i.e. th...
Harp Amplification
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Accusound workshop on Harp Amplification.
Firstly let’s start by defining what we or I mean by amplification.
Amplification is the increasing of t...
Frequency Response
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Frequency response.
The frequency response is way to characterise how an audio system performs. Microphones, amplifier, and loudspeaker have freque...
Effects send and return
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These are usually ¼” jack sockets, they may be integrated into to one socket or they may be individual jack sockets.
Effects Send or FXSnd is th...