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Brandyn Rowley
This week i learned about interference, resistance, software, pre amps, digital interface programs, and patch bays.
Interference basically of how i remembered it the intrusion of radio signals through the cord. Radio waves constantly pass by invisible overhead and the cords being made of medal can sometime pick up those frequencies. Sometimes no matter the amount of insulation in the cord high and low interference can occur.
Resistance if i remember correctly deals mainly with the length of cord. If the lank of the cord is to long the electricity dies out giving you either less noise or a lack of quality.
Reaper, is a software that i didn't know about up until Scott told me about it. There nothing much more to say about it other then it is more user friendly in the eyes of beginners. Not so many bells and whistles to take your eye from the sound manipulation. While still being one of the most used softwares for manipulation.
We talked specifically about MIC pre amp interfaces. How the digital world is coming into play over the analog, going from the sacred lunchbox to the ultimate satelite, plug in interface. The history behind it was very interesting but what really caught my eye was the new world wave that hitting. The development off technology in sound that i had no idea existed up until the other day.
Patch bays i was a little unclear on but it fit in well with the interfaces we were speaking on. Basically how i saw it was kind of like a gas station. You have the original sound, being the driver, stopping in to the gas station which is the patch bay. Driver gives original sound, or money to the gas station in exchange for gas, or a new product/sound. The gas station sends the new sound to the computer with the new interpretations.
A few days after the studio session Scott had his graduated rock class students perform a concert for family, friends, exc. I went in and helped with what i could, seeing the live setup unfold. Got to see the snake, A LOT of cords, some subs, instruments and other speakers. The setup was a good taste of the every other day life for an audio engineer. It was nice to get some hands on with the cords and experience the large amount of setup that goes into even the smallest of concerts.
