https://notes.musictech.alex.mayne.cc/tags/hardware/ Recent content in Hardware on Notes - Alex Mayne Music Tech Hugo -- gohugo.io en-uk https://notes.musictech.alex.mayne.cc/notes/audio-interface/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://notes.musictech.alex.mayne.cc/notes/audio-interface/ What is an audio interface? an audio interface takes all your inputs and outputs and dose the conversation processing so the data can be read by the audio driver/software How it processes the Audio The audio inputted by XLR or Line in jack makes its why into the Mic Pre where the audio gets boosted by multiplying the voltage making the audio signal louder. the analogue signal that the cable provided is converted to digital for the DSP to allow your computers drivers to provide the software with the inputted audio. https://notes.musictech.alex.mayne.cc/notes/microphones/condenser-microphones/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://notes.musictech.alex.mayne.cc/notes/microphones/condenser-microphones/ How dose it Work? Long Answer A Condenser microphone uses a strip of mettle as a Diaphragm that the sound waves wobble in front of a mettle backplate. Electricity will use the fastest route to complete the circuit so as the mettle wobbles it will pass electrons though the air when that is the quickest route but when there is no inputted waves the resistor is the quickest way to complete the circuit https://notes.musictech.alex.mayne.cc/notes/microphones/dynamic-microphones/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://notes.musictech.alex.mayne.cc/notes/microphones/dynamic-microphones/ How dose it Work? The vibrations hit against a small diaphragm that then wobbles a magnet in a copper coil field generation a small amount of current that is outputted to the XLR Cable Do I need phantom power? No Dynamic microphones do not require the extra phantom power (+48V) to function. But adding phantom power will not damage the microphone the extra power will just not be used. Examples of Dynamic Microphones Shure SM58 Shure SM57 Shure Bea 52A Sennheiser E602 Sennheiser E604 And many more