Interfacing Audio Components
Why are their so many different connectors used in audio systems?
In addition to the many types of connectors, there is balance, unbalance, consumer, professional, analog, digital – modern sound systems mix all of these technologies.
What are direct boxes, transformers and pads and when do I need them to solve problems interfacing audio components? Digital Audio add yet another set in interconnect methods. In some cases all of this is replaced with wireless.
Pat will help you learn out to connect any input to any output.
Gain Structure
All audio devices will distort if you drive them with too much signal (clipping) and all can be noise if you do not drive them with enough. Gain structure is the practice of getting this right for each component of the signal chain.
Pat will demonstrate how to optimized the system gain structure. Done in the right order, it only takes a few minutes to optimized the gain structure of your sound system.