Gain Staging for Modern Recording
How much analog gain is enough? Follow the noise floor, preserve headroom and stop chasing 0 dBFS.
Articles
Ideas worth taking apart.
Practical technical notes about microphones, recording, immersive audio and the physics behind the work. Enough detail to explain what is happening without turning every topic into a textbook.
Where Does the Noise Really Come From?
Thermal noise, microphone self-noise, masking, preamps, converters and 32-bit float — with the equations that explain which part of the chain actually matters.
Immersive Audio: How We Hear the World
Why two ears, the shape of our pinnae, head movement and loudspeaker geometry all matter when we try to reproduce a three-dimensional sound field.
More technical notes are coming.
Future articles will dig further into impedance converters, capsule behavior, Ambisonics, microphone design and the recording experiments behind the projects.