Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:32:17 Extend Your Reach When listeners to your FM station are in an area with high multipath, or just at the farthest reaches of your signal, they experience increased noise which modulates with the main program audio. The noise is primarily due to poor reception of the L-R signal that is part of your stereo transmission. The L-R signal [...]
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:13:57 Up Against The Wall
We used to need speakers as large as file cabinets if we expected to hear any satisfying low frequencies. Today, you can get respectable “grunt” out of absurdly small cabinets. What changed? (a) lots of power, and (b) ported enclosures.
The power part is pretty easy to understand. More power = the speaker cone moves more [...]
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:43:37 Ya Want Flat? We Got Flat. We were recently graced with the presence of Robby Scharf, Market Development Manager, and all-around studio gear whiz from Sennheiser. The occasion of his visit was to introduce BSW to the
Klein+Hummel line of studio monitors, of which Sennheiser is the parent company.
Let me get right to the point. Wow. I spent the morning listening mostly [...]
Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:45:29 Double Shot
A while ago, I talked about the benefits of using a shotgun mic for voice-over duties. Click here to read that posting.
Most shotguns don’t like to be worked as close as VO requires, but there are a few notable exceptions.
A favorite shotgun mic among the “movie trailer” guys is the Sennheiser MKH416. Terrific mic. The [...]
