Welcome to this introduction to our video tutorials on visualising sound.

Because sound is difficult to visualise, musicians, studio designers, and recording, mastering and live sound engineers all rely on a wide variety of diagrams and meters to help them visualise and measure it, and to operate the features and functions of sound recording, sound processing and sound editing equipment.

Some of these diagrams and meters are widely found in the project studio, in manuals, software interfaces and hardware displays. Therefore it is essential that studio owners know how to interpret them.

In this series we are going to look at diagrams that represent ..

• audio waveforms

• frequency response

• EQ

• dynamic range

• compression

• microphone polar patterns

• and, impulse responses

.. and the following types of audio meter ..

• VU meters
• peak programme level meters
• phase and correlation meters
• and, loudness meters

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Each tutorial in this series covers one aspect of visualising sound, building towards an understanding of all the primary diagrams and meters and their uses. You can watch them in any order, but they have been ordered in a playlist so that each video builds on the knowledge of the previous one.

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The level of knowledge was determined by asking “what does the average project or home studio owner need to know to effectively operate their studio”. So if you are an electronics engineer, you may find the theory and language too general for your needs.

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