THAT Corporation’s Chief Technology Officer, Gary Hebert, aims to unlock the secrets of designing cost effective, high-performance microphone preamplifiers at a tutorial during the 129th Audio Engineering Society Convention in San Francisco.
Mr. Hebert’s tutorial, “Designing Microphone Preamplifiers”, addresses many of the challenges faced in this critical, largely analog part of the audio signal chain.
Hebert will present a sampling of amplifier topologies and circuit details, and discuss design tradeoffs among cost, size, power consumption, noise, distortion, and other factors.
The session, part of the Product Design Track within the AES convention, is scheduled for November 6th from 4:45 to 6:15pm,
“Preferences and opinions on preamplifiers are nearly a religion within the professional audio community where the microphone preamp often defines the signature sound of a piece of equipment or even a recording studio,” stated Mr. Hebert.
“Working in harmony with the microphone, the preamp often sets the performance of the entire system.”
“In addition, as the first line of defense to the outside world, it must withstand hostile conditions such as 48V phantom power faults or erroneously patched hot signals.”
THAT Corporation will sponsor the Product Design Track at the 129th AES Convention, which includes Hebert’s tutorial and 19 other events.
