skippy
New member
Now that you guys have got me started thinking like an dadgum audio nerd again, I've started digging back in to the subject, trying to catch up on the current state of the art. Shoot, I even renewed my lapsed AES membership, and that led me to something: I just got in a copy of a reference from the AES that I think will be very useful to anyone who is serious about studio or sound system construction. It is the reprint of exerpts of the AES Journal June '95 Special Issue on grounding, shielding, and noise.
Hums, buzzes, and noise. This topic comes up weekly here on the site, and I've offered my own (painfully dated) views on the subject. However, reading this series of articles has led me to revise the grounding scheme in my own studio, and I've started fixing a few pieces of gear that had intractable ground-loop problems. In any case, I'm now officially revising some of my long-held beliefs about grounding strategies: this old dog really can learn some new tricks, when they're well documented and they actually work. You can order this reprint from
http://www.aes.org/publications/other.cfm#5
The button is under "Journal Issues", titled "Shields and Grounds".
If any of you are current AES members, this is probably old hat to you. Even if you are not a member, but are only a home studio owner who wants to understand this subject better, this'll be $15 well spent- because it will help save you many hours of annoyance in understanding and chasing the noises out of your own rig. Even if you're not an ubernerd, this is *very useful information*: it is not applicable only to the pocket-protector/taped-glasses set. I think that it should be on every studio owner and sound contractor's bookshelf, right beside "The Audio Cyclopedia".
One other (slightly nerdier) item on that page that amuses the hell out of me: they have also reprinted the entire October 1978 issue, complete with vintage ads, which features Dr. Barry Blesser's definitive article on the state of the digital audio art. As of 1978, of course... If you ever wanted to know what things looked like back at the dawn of the age when I learned them, this would be a true hoot for you.
[Edited by skippy on 01-30-2001 at 10:34]
Hums, buzzes, and noise. This topic comes up weekly here on the site, and I've offered my own (painfully dated) views on the subject. However, reading this series of articles has led me to revise the grounding scheme in my own studio, and I've started fixing a few pieces of gear that had intractable ground-loop problems. In any case, I'm now officially revising some of my long-held beliefs about grounding strategies: this old dog really can learn some new tricks, when they're well documented and they actually work. You can order this reprint from
http://www.aes.org/publications/other.cfm#5
The button is under "Journal Issues", titled "Shields and Grounds".
If any of you are current AES members, this is probably old hat to you. Even if you are not a member, but are only a home studio owner who wants to understand this subject better, this'll be $15 well spent- because it will help save you many hours of annoyance in understanding and chasing the noises out of your own rig. Even if you're not an ubernerd, this is *very useful information*: it is not applicable only to the pocket-protector/taped-glasses set. I think that it should be on every studio owner and sound contractor's bookshelf, right beside "The Audio Cyclopedia".
One other (slightly nerdier) item on that page that amuses the hell out of me: they have also reprinted the entire October 1978 issue, complete with vintage ads, which features Dr. Barry Blesser's definitive article on the state of the digital audio art. As of 1978, of course... If you ever wanted to know what things looked like back at the dawn of the age when I learned them, this would be a true hoot for you.
[Edited by skippy on 01-30-2001 at 10:34]