Even if you cannot afford or simply don’t want an outside piece of furniture in your studio, the controls of a recording console, along with their signal flow (real or virtual) is a complex and important topic to understand. In this section Alan takes you on a knob-by-knob tour of a typical channel strip, including demonstrating such often misunderstood concepts as pre and post fade.
The recording console’s niece or nephew is of course the controller; an object through which audio is simply controlled as opposed to passes.
