In recording circles, you may have heard of the 2:1 rule of ambience when discussing different microphone polar patterns and their sensitivity to room ambience. If you're wondering about this rule,...
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Stereo audio has been a dominant format for analog and digital audio for decades, particularly in the music industry. It's a relatively simple format that does a good job of emulating the way we...
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