June 24, 2020 | Instruments
The history of the viola relates to the development of the other instruments within the violin family. These were first made in northern Italy between 1530 and 1550. These regions include cities such as Milan, Brescia, Cremona, and Venice. The work of illustrious...
June 24, 2020 | Instruments, Resources
The violin family’s largest bowed string instrument is the double bass. It includes four (or less commonly five) strings tuned in 4ths. It sounds an octave lower than its smaller orchestral partner, the cello. The double bass is best known for its contribution...
June 24, 2020 | Instruments, Resources
The classical guitar, also known as nylon-string or Spanish guitar, belongs to the guitar family and is used in classical music. It has essentially wood on its body and strings made of catgut or nylon. The classical guitar is a predecessor of the modern acoustic and...
April 23, 2020 | Resources, Speaker Systems
Amplitude panning originates from stereophony, initially developed by Blumlein in the early 1930s. In essence, this system transforms the phase and amplitude difference of a signal recorded by stereophonic reception systems (mic stereo pairs, or the ears for that...
April 28, 2020 | Audio Recording, Resources
The A/B stereo recording technique is also known as “Spaced Pair”. It involves two microphones positioned anywhere from 3 to 10 feet apart, meant to capture the same sound source. The distance between them will create time-of-arrival (phase) and level...
