Hugh Robjohns SOS Technical Editor c.2020 Hugh Robjohns has been Sound On Sound's Technical Editor since 1997. Prior to that he worked in a variety of (mostly) sound-related roles in BBC Television, ending up as a Sound Operations Lecturer at the BBC's technical training centre.
He continues to provide audio consultancy and bespoke broadcast audio training services all over the world, lectures at professional and public conventions, and occasionally records and masters acoustic and classical music too!
More and more, I see super-high-frequency information in recordings from clients. Do you know what kind of information this is?
Imersiv’s claims to have delivered a revolution in D‐A conversion technology aren’t mere snake oil: the D‐1 outperforms every other current DAC by a huge margin. And, importantly, the differences are audible...
Since RX11 came out, there’ve been huge leaps in AI‐based audio repair and separation tools. iZotope’s boffin’s have now delivered their reply — can RX12 reclaim its crown?
The ADAM A8H onboard DSP uses an integrated 24‐bit/96kHz A‐D converter. How does this work if I’m already using higher sample rates in the DAW? Are we no longer hearing the interface conversion?
Digital audio can sound wonderful today, and while it’s not quite technically possible to achieve ‘perfection’, this clever pair of plug‐ins gets us that much closer!
The 110‐degree spread of the ORTF array avoids the centre being louder than the rest of the stereo spread as the microphone patterns overlap, but does this also introduce a high-frequency roll-off?
Would your mic techniques change if you knew your location recordings were destined for a Dolby Atmos release? That’s a question our technical editor recently had to ponder...
The imaging of stereo mic arrays and loudspeaker monitoring is not as accurate as it should be — and the SHUpHLER MkIV aims to address that.
I’ve noticed that the signal coming from the mixer’s direct outs is low, is it a problem of the mixer or the interface?
Is a genuine limiter just a compressor with a high ratio, or are there other differences, such as the attack times, or the nature of level detection?
