audio engineering
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The Apollo Solo Turns Your Mac Into a Recording Studio
Recording audio into your Mac or PC requires a standalone digital signal processor. The most popular models are the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 or the PreSonus AudioBox USB 96, but now advanced audio tech manufacturers are getting into the DSP hardware game. Take the $879 Universal Audio Apollo Solo, for example, which is a new DSP…
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Long Sheets of Paper-Thin Printed Speakers Could be the Future of Surround Sound
A proper surround sound setup usually involved a room filled with boxy speakers in every corner, but researchers at Germany’s Chemnitz University of Technology have developed a way to print long strips of paper loudspeakers that can be rolled up into a 360-degree surround sound experience more immersive than even a movie theatre.
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Why Drums Only Sound As Good As The Room They’re In
I’ve spent a fair bit of time in the company of drummers, and every last one has been a little bit weird. That level of independent limb coordination must do something to your neural circuitry. Some of them hide their strangeness… unless they get to talking about “room tone”. Then they start describing sounds as…
