Dana Puopolo’s Guest Commentary, “Let’s Keep AM Sounding Good” (Jan. 19) contains a number of technical errors. Mr. Puopolo’s thesis hinges on the ideas that the thing which causes 5 kHz low-pass ...
The very term ‘saturation’ sometimes feels like it has a negative value attached to it. Throughout recording history, technology has sought to deliver the cleanest signal possible, so why for the love ...
A young chief engineer who knew a lot more about computers than transmitters and analog audio systems recently asked me for help in tracking down on-air distortion that had affected his mom-and-pop ...
Distortion is familiar to most of us — a 'staticky noise,' a 'noisy static.' But in the right hands, its uses can bloom and its rigid contours... The acorn must crack in order for the seedling to ...