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Cardioid mics are widely used in live sound, because their "apple-shaped" pickup pattern rejects sounds from the sides and rear of the mic, making it more resistant to unwanted feedback "howls". Many types of input transducers can be found in a sound reinforcement system, with microphones being the most commonly used input device.
The position of the pop filter is different in different recording situations, with a further position from the microphone causing fewer pop sounds. More distance means increasing the microphone gain and gaining more room noise. Normally, to get good quality, the pop filter should be placed about 2–6 inches (5–15 cm) away from the ...
The internal electronic circuitry of an active noise-canceling mic attempts to subtract noise signal from the primary microphone. The circuit may employ passive or active noise canceling techniques to filter out the noise, producing an output signal that has a lower noise floor and a higher signal-to-noise ratio .
SSL SL9000J (72 channel) console at Cutting Room Recording Studio, NYC An audio engineer adjusts a mixer while doing live sound for a band.. A mixing console or mixing desk is an electronic device for mixing audio signals, used in sound recording and reproduction and sound reinforcement systems.
Soundboard (music), a part of a musical instrument; Sounding board, an attachment to a pulpit to assist a human speaker; Mixing console, used to combine electronic audio signals; Soundboard (computer program), a web application or computer program with buttons that play short, often humorous sound clips
Open office plans – open offices can be either too quiet (where someone dropping a pen in the next cubicle is distracting) – or too noisy (where the conversations of others in the office make it impossible to concentrate). Open offices can benefit from sound masking because the added sound covers existing sounds in the area – making ...
Degree of directionality of pickup: in some settings, such as a home video of a birthday party, the person may wish to pick up all the sounds in the room, making an omnidirectional mic desirable. However, if a TV news crew is filming a reporter at a noisy protest, they may only wish to pick up her voice, making a cardioid mic more desirable.
The Soundfield microphone used to make Ambisonic recordings can be adjusted to mimic two microphones of any pattern at any angle to each other, including a Blumlein pair. In his early experiments at EMI with what he called " binaural " sound, Blumlein did not use this actual technique because he did not have access to figure-eight microphones.