An audio compressor is one of the most important parts of sound design and mixing, but it is also one of the most misunderstood and mis-used. Here Tim Dunphy unravels the mysteries surrounding the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a previous article, we discussed analog audio SNR concepts. As mentioned, the dynamic range is ...

People mix up the two types of audio compression all the time. Dynamic range and lossy compression are very different things. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a ...

This dynamic compressor with passive components reduces high signal to a lower, more constant signal. If you look at this compressor schematic, you’ll notice it has no power supply, the required power ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...