Dave Moulton

Our Story To Date. Alert readers may recall my recent concern with the variance in audio levels as experienced by us home viewers.

I'm going to devote a couple of columns to audio basics for video folks.

This column will be devoted to the basics of surround sound for video, as part of my series for non-audio folks.

While I expected HD to be better, I didn't expect it to be quite so freakin' much better, if you know what I mean.

This column is devoted to the basics of audio compression, a powerful signal-processing technique that is poorly understood by almost all of us.

This column will be devoted to the basics of time-domain signalprocessing effects, most notably reverb.

This column will be devoted to the basics of stereo for video, as part of my series on "the basics."

This is for those among us who don't know a lot about audio and are not quite sure we should ask.

Spreaders, for those of you who don’t know, are neat little FX patches that can really enhance stereophony. Even better, they work great in surround as well.

Two months ago we ranted about bad audio, goaded on by reader Bro Duke, who wants the FCC to DO SOMETHING about it! Well, we got a fair amount of mail, with some interesting horror stories.

I know, I know! I promised you that I was done with resolution issues. But as I wrapped up my rant, a couple of industry pros really got on my case about some of the things I was saying.

Alert readers will recall that last month I began a discussion of how we try to determine what it is that we humans can really hear.

The first thing to keep in mind is that we are talking about a pair of signals here, not a single mono signal.