Instructor
Mastering Engineer, Bob Katz (Who is Bob Katz?)
Mastering Engineer, Bob Katz (Who is Bob Katz?)
Course Description
Once we’ve designed and installed the reproduction system, adjusted and tuned it, we always evaluate the performance using music. Learn how staging and imaging are recorded or created in the final mix. Bob will also talk about the frequency components of various instruments and vocals and about what it means when someone refers to the sound as “fat” or “thin”, “muddy”, “sweet”, “edgy” and so on. Additionally, if you’re confused about recording levels, why some recordings or streams sound much louder than others and what that means for other aspects of performance and system level setting, Bob will fill us in.
This course is a unique opportunity to learn about how important aspects of recordings are created from the guy who literally wrote the book and who has been making many of the world’s best audiophile quality recordings for nearly 50 years.
Once we’ve designed and installed the reproduction system, adjusted and tuned it, we always evaluate the performance using music. Learn how staging and imaging are recorded or created in the final mix. Bob will also talk about the frequency components of various instruments and vocals and about what it means when someone refers to the sound as “fat” or “thin”, “muddy”, “sweet”, “edgy” and so on. Additionally, if you’re confused about recording levels, why some recordings or streams sound much louder than others and what that means for other aspects of performance and system level setting, Bob will fill us in.
This course is a unique opportunity to learn about how important aspects of recordings are created from the guy who literally wrote the book and who has been making many of the world’s best audiophile quality recordings for nearly 50 years.
What You Will Learn
- How staging and imaging are captured and/or synthesized in the recording and mastering process.
- What frequencies instruments and vocals are comprised of to facilitate subjective system analysis.
- How recording levels contribute to our perception of more than just how loud a tracks seems to sound.
Instructor
Mastering Engineer, Bob Katz
Mastering Engineer, Bob Katz
Course Description
Once we’ve designed and installed the reproduction system, adjusted and tuned it, we always evaluate the performance using music. Learn how staging and imaging are recorded or created in the final mix. Bob will also talk about the frequency components of various instruments and vocals and about what it means when someone refers to the sound as “fat” or “thin”, “muddy”, “sweet”, “edgy” and so on. Additionally, if you’re confused about recording levels, why some recordings or streams sound much louder than others and what that means for other aspects of performance and system level setting, Bob will fill us in.
This course is a unique opportunity to learn about how important aspects of recordings are created from the guy who literally wrote the book and who has been making many of the world’s best audiophile quality recordings for nearly 50 years.
Once we’ve designed and installed the reproduction system, adjusted and tuned it, we always evaluate the performance using music. Learn how staging and imaging are recorded or created in the final mix. Bob will also talk about the frequency components of various instruments and vocals and about what it means when someone refers to the sound as “fat” or “thin”, “muddy”, “sweet”, “edgy” and so on. Additionally, if you’re confused about recording levels, why some recordings or streams sound much louder than others and what that means for other aspects of performance and system level setting, Bob will fill us in.
This course is a unique opportunity to learn about how important aspects of recordings are created from the guy who literally wrote the book and who has been making many of the world’s best audiophile quality recordings for nearly 50 years.
What You Will Learn
- How staging and imaging are captured and/or synthesized in the recording and mastering process.
- What frequencies instruments and vocals are comprised of to facilitate subjective system analysis.
- How recording levels contribute to our perception of more than just how loud a tracks seems to sound.
Instructor
Andy Wehmeyer
Andy Wehmeyer
Course Description
While engineers in labs have been making advanced measurements for a long time, recent upgrades in hardware and software performance in affordable PCs have made it possible for even car audio techs to incorporate laboratory processes into retail system optimization. In this course, we’ll explain impulse response measurements, spatial average measurements using microphone arrays and the measurement of speaker and system phase directly. Learn how to make these measurements and what they mean so you can incorporate them into a tuning process that will provide even better system performance, reliably and in less time.
While engineers in labs have been making advanced measurements for a long time, recent upgrades in hardware and software performance in affordable PCs have made it possible for even car audio techs to incorporate laboratory processes into retail system optimization. In this course, we’ll explain impulse response measurements, spatial average measurements using microphone arrays and the measurement of speaker and system phase directly. Learn how to make these measurements and what they mean so you can incorporate them into a tuning process that will provide even better system performance, reliably and in less time.
What You Will Learn
- The course covers impulse response measurements, which contain both frequency response and phase data necessary for advanced tuning.
- Learn how to make a spatially averaged measurement and what it contains. Learn why you ought to incorporate this in an advanced tuning process.
- The course will provide a foundational understanding of phase and how it contributes to system performance. Learn what crossovers and EQ, reflections and delays do to phase and how to identify these components in a phase measurement.
Instructor
Mark Eldridge
Mark Eldridge
AN INTRODUCTION FROM YOUR INSTRUCTOR - MARK ELDRIDGE
Course Description
A hands-on demo of how to make advanced measurements, collect and use the acquired data. Measuring frequency response and phase simultaneously with a microphone array and a timing microphone will be demonstrated. Learn how to incorporate phase measurements into real-time optimization of crossovers and final system imaging performance. See real world examples of the influence of reflections and speaker placement on measurement data. This session will tie up the two previous sessions by providing the “how to” so you can more easily incorporate advanced data and final subjective evaluation of system performance into your tuning process.
A hands-on demo of how to make advanced measurements, collect and use the acquired data. Measuring frequency response and phase simultaneously with a microphone array and a timing microphone will be demonstrated. Learn how to incorporate phase measurements into real-time optimization of crossovers and final system imaging performance. See real world examples of the influence of reflections and speaker placement on measurement data. This session will tie up the two previous sessions by providing the “how to” so you can more easily incorporate advanced data and final subjective evaluation of system performance into your tuning process.
What You Will Learn
- How to make advanced frequency response and phase measurements
- How to incorporate advanced measurements and data into a live tuning process.
- How these processes affect our subjective analysis using music.