Sample rate is the number of times per second a digital audio system measures a signal, which sets the highest frequency it…
A shotgun microphone is a highly directional microphone with an interference tube that favors sound from the front and rejects off-axis noise.
Sidechain compression in mixing lets one signal control the gain reduction applied to another, used for ducking, pumping and frequency control.
A signal chain in audio recording is the ordered path of devices and processes that a sound passes through from the source…
Sound pressure level in acoustics expresses the effective pressure of a sound in decibels relative to 20 micropascals, the threshold of hearing.
Speech intelligibility is the degree to which listeners correctly understand spoken words in a recording or room, shaped by noise, reverberation and…
Stereo is a two-channel audio format that uses left and right signals to create a phantom image of sound sources positioned between…
Surround sound is a spatial audio method that places loudspeakers around the listener, such as in 5.1 or 7.1 layouts, to reproduce…