INSIDE AUDIO

Feb 01, 2012 / 11:32AM
Are We CALM Yet?
You may recall I've been ranting about variance in loudness levels on broadcast television for numerous years.

Jan 03, 2012 / 12:00AM
Experiencing Envelopment: The Secret Sauce of Stereo
A key ingredient of almost any successful stereo production

Monitoring Low Frequencies in Surround Audio Production
As we've discussed, low frequencies don't do well coming out of small loudspeakers into smallish rooms.

Working Together—Small Rooms, Small Loudspeakers
Stable, consistent and predictable bass is one of the hardest things to obtain in a monitoring situation.

Helping Control Rooms Handle Low Frequencies
This is not easy to do, and impossible to do perfectly.

Can Sound Waves Stand Still?
This will actually take a couple of columns. I'll start with the idea of standing waves.

Listening to Audio on a Laptop
There are issues of dynamic range, maximum and minimum levels, subjective loudness qualities, spectrum and much more.

Getting Back to Subwoofer Basics
Their performance and effectiveness can be highly variable for a range of not-so-obvious reasons.

Getting CALMer, Bit by Bit
It seems appropriate to me that we go a little further with the discussion, simply to clarify what seems to be meant and desired in practice by A/85 and its authors.

A Review of CALM Dialnorm
We would like all equipment to play back at the same calibrated level, including in our viewers' homes. To achieve that, we use a protocol called dialnorm.