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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Karl Winkler 05/22/12 04:46 PM,Anyone who has done some studio recording or at least knows full well some of the pitfalls of the studio world. For those of you who haven’t done, well, let me tell you. Recording is its own planet, and it’s a world where people have pale skin, sunken eyes, hearing loss (oops - that’s common in the sound reinforcement world, too), and it can be out of touch with reality, as in, reality is sometimes the last thing that recordings… View this story
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Karl Winkler 05/08/12 04:49 PM,10. Musicians feel most comfortable and play best when they hear what they need to hear on the stage. Of course, the experienced monitor guys and recording guys already know this. But it’s something for those less experienced to think about. No, it’s not about how much power you have or what kind of monitor wedges. It’s about psychology. And I think it’s true that if you become good at monitors and understand how to please musicians, you are 90… View this story
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Thursday, March 01, 2012
Karl Winkler 03/01/12 11:59 AM,Purple loudspeakers sound better than black ones. At least that’s what I hear when I see them. And plaid loudspeakers sound, well, more complex, with additional harmonics. Think I’m crazy? Actually, this is a real effect. Well, not purple versus black versus plaid loudspeakers, exactly. But a carefully controlled test might prove something along these lines, as evidenced by recent scientific reports about how the brain fills in some of the gaps, or even obscures certain things, due to input… View this story
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Karl Winkler 02/11/12 12:13 PM,Preserving our hearing is critically important, but that’s not what motivated me to write this piece. Really, I just can’t stand bad sound! To a certain extent, it used to be somewhat excusable if a live show was loud and didn’t sound all that great. Sound reinforcement systems have come a long way in the past decade alone, but ‘back in the day’” good clean power was harder to come by, and loudspeakers just were not designed to produce high-fidelity… View this story
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Karl Winkler 01/10/12 11:17 AM,One of my first jobs in the pro audio business was to make cables, do simple repairs and be a general “tech” at the USC film school audio department. I was one of those destitute students who asked around about “anything I could get” in terms of work. And this was it. It was a good experience for a number of reasons, foremost of which was that THX guru Tomlinson Holman was one of the main teachers at the film… View this story
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Karl Winkler 12/06/11 12:42 PM,Some time ago I was on a trip to Japan, visiting some key customers, and I picked up on something that has been brewing in the back of my mind ever since. Maybe the light bulb went on because I was in a different country with a different culture, but here was the thing… I was asked several times by several people: “what’s the maximum number of channels your wireless system can operate simultaneously?” That’s when the “something” in the… View this story
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Karl Winkler 11/18/11 06:17 PM,Our friend Karl Winkler of Lectrosonics came up with these microphone inspired “Twenty Questions” quiz. (By the way, another PSW microphone quiz is located here.) Click on the box below each question for its respective answer. In addition, we’ve provided all answers at the end of the quiz. Good luck! 1.) Which has more overall rejection: cardioid or figure 8? A.) Cardioid. B.) Figure 8. C.) They’re about the same. D.) Omni has more rejection.… View this story
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Karl Winkler 10/10/11 04:18 PM, 1 CommentWhat makes acoustic sound sound acoustic? Just recently, I attended a performance of Wozzek by Alban Berg at the Santa Fe Opera. Like most top opera companies in the world, the SFO mounts most of their performances 100 percent acoustically. The exceptions are when the composer calls for effects on the vocals, or for one of the orchestral instruments to be highlighted with reinforcement. Even in those rare cases, the goal remains to present the performance as an acoustic event.… View this story
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Karl Winkler 10/04/11 11:54 AM, 1 CommentI’ve been thinking quite a bit about the role musical education plays in audio mixing. There have been numerous threads about the subject in several on-line forums, and the responses seem evenly divided between “not needed but it doesn’t hurt” and “it’s actually a hindrance” and “it certainly helps.” Because I earned a degree in music performance, I’m biased on the subject, with my opinion leaning toward the “it helps” camp. Still, I can’t help but wonder if it really… View this story
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Karl Winkler 09/15/11 05:39 PM, 0 CommentsI’ve heard it said many times, in many different situations, that we tend to think we don’t have time to do something right, but then somehow, have time to fix everything that goes wrong as a result. We all know Mr. Murphy and his law about things tending to go wrong if there is any possibility for them to do so. But what can we do about it? For starters, correct that first part - the thing about making sure… View this story
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