Fundamentals Of Amplifiers Explained In Under 2 Minutes

When you think of amplifiers the first image that comes to mind might be a big guitar amp like a Marshall Stack. But recording setups also use many different kinds of amps, smaller and differently designed. In this short video from the course AudioPedia 108: Mixing and Mastering, Joe Albano explains the various types of amps found in studio systems. 

You'll see that all the amps in a setup serve a different function: power amps to drive passive speakers, amps inside active monitors, preamps and power amp circuits inside instrument amps, and much more! So if you've ever wondered about the fundamentals of how your mixing setup works, check out this video and the rest of the videos in this course!

AudioPedia 108: Mixing and Mastering

Our AudioPedia series is a comprehensive video dictionary of audio terminology. Created by audio expert Joe Albano, this encyclopedia of technical terms is the ultimate audio reference tool. Here are the topics covered and defined in the eight installment of this authoritative series:

Mixing:
-Amplifier
-Mic Pre | Mic Preamp

Mixing - Filter | EQ:
-Filter - LowPass | HighPass | BandPass
-Filter Cutoff | Resonance
-Filter Slope | Pole
-EQ | Equalization | Parametric EQ
-Shelving | Peaking | Bell Curve
-“Q” | Bandwidth

Mixing - Dynamics:
-Dynamics | Dynamic Processing
-Compression | Compressor
-Limiting | Limiter
-Threshold & Ratio (Compressor)
-Attack & Release (Compressor)
-Make-Up Gain (Compressor)
-Hard Knee | Soft Knee (Compressor)
-Program-Dependent Compression
-Optical | Opto Compressor | LA-2A
-FET Compressor | 1176
-Variable-Mu Compressor | Fairchild
-VCA Compressor | dbx | SSL
-Parallel | NY Compression
-Sidechain Processing - De-Essing
-Sidechain Processing - Ducking
-Expander | Noise Gate

Mixing - Delay:
-Delay Line | DDL
-Delay Time
-Modulation
-Feedback
-Flanger | Flanging
-Chorus | Chorusing
-Double | Doubling
-Phaser | Phasing
-Echo | Slap Echo

Mixing - Reverb:
-Reverberation | Ambience | Rt60
-Reverb Chamber
-Plate Reverb
-Spring Reverb
-Algorithmic Reverb
-Convolution Reverb
-Impulse Response | IR

Mixing - Distortion:
-Distortion | Overdrive (FX)
-Harmonic Distortion
-Tube
-Transistor
-Transformer
-Tape Saturation
-Digital Distortion
-Bitcrusher | Lo-Fi

Mastering:
-Buss Processing
-Mastering
-Linear-Phase (Processing)
-Multiband Compression
-Brickwall Limiter
-True Peak (Metering)
-Loudness Maximizer | Maximizing
-Loudness War
-Audio Repair
-Spectral Processing

So join audio expert and trainer Joe Albano and get a deep understanding of audio terminology with the AudioPedia series!