Glossary
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Mic Pre
Microphone Preamplifier. A device (or part of a larger device such as a
mixing console or audio interface) that takes the low output signal of a
microphone (referred to as mic level) and amplifies it to a higher level
(referred to as line level).
This must be done in order to make the microphone's output compatible
with the working level of mixers and other devices, giving it the name
"pre" amplifier.
M/S
Stands for Mid/Side, and most commonly refers to a technique of using
two microphones-
• Mid, (cardioid, omni or figure-8) facing the event to be recorded
• Side, (always figure-8) turned 90° in relation to the Mid. Should be
placed as close as possible to the Mid’s diaphragm.
The two signals are matrixed to stereo using a M/S decoder. The advan-
tage of M/S recording is that the stereo width is variable from true mono
through stereo and can be modified after recording.
The M/S Processor included with +DSP adds the ability to
encode
stereo
to M/S, allowing you to separately processes the center and sides of a
pre-recorded stereo signal.
Mult
To send one signal to “multiple” places at once. For example, you could
mult your stereo mix to Analog 1-2 and Digital 1-2 to send them to differ-
ent devices simultaneously.
Mult can also refer to a multichannel cable; for example, a DB25 cable is
used as an eight channel mult with the LIO-8 and ULN-8.
