Studio monitor, the Glossary
Studio monitors are loudspeakers in speaker enclosures specifically designed for professional audio production applications, such as recording studios, filmmaking, television studios, radio studios and project or home studios, where accurate audio reproduction is crucial.[1]
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Absolute phase
Absolute phase is the phase of a waveform relative to some standard (strictly speaking, phase is always relative).
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ADAM Audio
Advanced Dynamic Audio Monitors (ADAM) Audio is a German company that develops, manufactures, and distributes (active) loudspeakers.
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Alarm clock
An alarm clock or alarm is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of people at a specified time.
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Altec Lansing Duplex
DUPLEX was the trade name given by Altec Lansing to its line of coaxial loudspeakers, beginning with the first model 601 in 1943. Studio monitor and Altec Lansing Duplex are loudspeakers.
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Amphion Loudspeakers
Amphion Loudspeakers Ltd. (Amphion Loudspeakers Oy) is a Finnish company that manufactures home loudspeakers and professional studio monitors.
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Audio engineer
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound. Studio monitor and audio engineer are audio engineering.
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Audio mixing (recorded music)
In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of optimizing and combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product.
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Audio power amplifier
An audio power amplifier (or power amp) amplifies low-power electronic audio signals, such as the signal from a radio receiver or an electric guitar pickup, to a level that is high enough for driving loudspeakers or headphones.
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Bass drum
The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.
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BBC Research & Development
BBC Research & Development is the technical research department of the BBC. Studio monitor and BBC Research & Development are audio engineering.
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Bi-amping and tri-amping
Bi-amping and tri-amping is the practice of using two or three audio amplifiers respectively to amplify different audio frequency ranges, with the amplified signals being routed to different speaker drivers, such as woofers, subwoofers and tweeters.
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Boombox
A boombox is a transistorized portable music player featuring one or two cassette tape players/recorders and AM/FM radio, generally with a carrying handle.
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Capitol Records
Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.
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Celestion
Celestion is a British designer and exporter of professional loudspeakers.
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Chris Lord-Alge
Chris Lord-Alge is an American mix engineer.
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Coaxial
In geometry, coaxial means that several three-dimensional linear or planar forms share a common axis.
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Digital room correction
Digital room correction (or DRC) is a process in the field of acoustics where digital filters designed to ameliorate unfavorable effects of a room's acoustics are applied to the input of a sound reproduction system.
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Dynamic range compression
Dynamic range compression (DRC) or simply compression is an audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds, thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's dynamic range. Studio monitor and dynamic range compression are audio engineering.
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Dynaudio
Dynaudio is a Chinese-owned Danish loudspeaker maker, founded in 1977.
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Ed Long (audio engineer)
Edward M. Long (1932 – December 17, 2016) was an audio engineer known for introducing the first near-field studio monitors and the first Time-Aligned loudspeaker crossover.
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EMI
EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
End user
In product development, an end user (sometimes end-user) is a person who ultimately uses or is intended to ultimately use a product.
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Filmmaking
Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced.
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Focal-JMLab
Focal Opal 19ti Focal-JMlab is a French company that has designing and selling high fidelity audio systems since 1979.
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Fostex
is an electronics company that manufactures loudspeakers and audio equipment for other companies or sells them under the trade name Fostex.
Frequency response
In signal processing and electronics, the frequency response of a system is the quantitative measure of the magnitude and phase of the output as a function of input frequency.
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Genelec
Genelec Oy is a manufacturer of active loudspeaker systems based in Iisalmi, Finland.
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Georg Neumann
Georg Neumann GmbH is a manufacturer of professional recording microphones.
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Goodmans Industries
Goodmans was a British consumer electronics company.
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High fidelity
High fidelity (often shortened to Hi-Fi or HiFi) is the high-quality reproduction of sound. Studio monitor and high fidelity are audio engineering.
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High-end audio
High-end audio is a class of consumer home audio equipment marketed to audiophiles on the basis of high price or quality, and esoteric or novel sound reproduction technologies.
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Horn loudspeaker
A horn loudspeaker is a loudspeaker or loudspeaker element which uses an acoustic horn to increase the overall efficiency of the driving element(s). Studio monitor and horn loudspeaker are loudspeakers.
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Impulse response
In signal processing and control theory, the impulse response, or impulse response function (IRF), of a dynamic system is its output when presented with a brief input signal, called an impulse.
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Independent music
Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedoms, low-budgets, and a do-it-yourself approach to music creation, which originated from the liberties afforded by independent record labels.
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James Bullough Lansing
James Bullough Lansing (born James Martini, January 2, 1902 – September 29, 1949) was a pioneering American audio engineer and loudspeaker designer who was most notable for establishing two audio companies that bear his name, Altec Lansing and JBL, the latter taken from his initials, JBL.
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List of loudspeaker manufacturers
This is a list of notable manufacturers of loudspeakers.
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Lo-fi music
Lo-fi (also typeset as lofi or low-fi; short for low fidelity) is a music or production quality in which elements usually regarded as imperfections in the context of a recording or performance are present, sometimes as a deliberate choice.
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Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or speaker driver) is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound. Studio monitor and loudspeaker are audio engineering and loudspeakers.
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Loudspeaker acoustics
Loudspeaker acoustics is a subfield of acoustical engineering concerned with the reproduction of sound and the parameters involved in doing so in actual equipment.
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Loudspeaker enclosure
A loudspeaker enclosure or loudspeaker cabinet is an enclosure (often rectangular box-shaped) in which speaker drivers (e.g., loudspeakers and tweeters) and associated electronic hardware, such as crossover circuits and, in some cases, power amplifiers, are mounted. Studio monitor and loudspeaker enclosure are audio engineering and loudspeakers.
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LS3/5A
The LS3/5A (each element pronounced separately, without the stroke) is a small studio monitor loudspeaker originated by the BBC for use by outside broadcast vans to ensure quality of their broadcasts. Studio monitor and LS3/5A are loudspeakers.
Mastering (audio)
Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication). Studio monitor and Mastering (audio) are audio engineering.
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Monaural sound
Monaural sound or monophonic sound (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position.
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Multitrack recording
Multitrack recording (MTR), also known as multitracking, is a method of sound recording developed in 1955 that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources or of sound sources recorded at different times to create a cohesive whole.
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New wave music
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.
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Overdubbing
Overdubbing (also known as layering) is a technique used in audio recording in which audio tracks that have been pre-recorded are then played back and monitored, while simultaneously recording new, doubled, or augmented tracks onto one or more available tracks of a digital audio workstation (DAW) or tape recorder.
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Phase response
In signal processing, phase response is the relationship between the phase of a sinusoidal input and the output signal passing through any device that accepts input and produces an output signal, such as an amplifier or a filter.
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PMC Ltd.
The Professional Monitor Company Limited, better known as PMC, is a British loudspeaker manufacturer, established in 1991.
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Powered speakers
Powered speakers, also known as self-powered speakers and active speakers, are loudspeakers that have built-in amplifiers. Studio monitor and Powered speakers are audio engineering and loudspeakers.
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Professional audio
Professional audio, abbreviated as pro audio, refers to both an activity and a category of high-quality, studio-grade audio equipment. Studio monitor and Professional audio are audio engineering.
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Professional audio store
A professional audio store is a retail business that sells, and in many cases rents, sound reinforcement system equipment and PA system components used in music concerts, live shows, dance parties and speaking events.
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Public address system
A public address system (or PA system) is an electronic system comprising microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and related equipment. Studio monitor and public address system are audio engineering.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.
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Record producer
A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles.
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Recording studio
A recording studio is a specialized facility for recording and mixing of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.
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Room acoustics
Room acoustics is a subfield of acoustics dealing with the behaviour of sound in enclosed or partially-enclosed spaces.
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Sound on Sound
Sound on Sound is a monthly music technology magazine.
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Stereophonic sound
Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective. Studio monitor and Stereophonic sound are audio engineering.
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Subwoofer
A subwoofer (or sub) is a loudspeaker designed to reproduce low-pitched audio frequencies, known as bass and sub-bass, that are lower in frequency than those which can be (optimally) generated by a woofer. Studio monitor and subwoofer are audio engineering and loudspeakers.
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Tannoy
Tannoy is a British manufacturer of loudspeakers and public address systems founded in 1926.
Television studio
A television studio, also called a television production studio, is an installation room in which video productions take place, either for the production of live television and its recording onto video tape or other media such as SSDs, or for the acquisition of raw footage for post-production.
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The Absolute Sound
The Absolute Sound (TAS) is an American audiophile magazine which reviews high-end audio equipment, along with recordings and comments on various music-related subjects.
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The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in London in 1964.
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Tweeter
A tweeter or treble speaker is a special type of loudspeaker (usually dome, inverse dome or horn-type) that is designed to produce high audio frequencies, typically up to 100 kHz. Studio monitor and tweeter are loudspeakers.
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Woofer
A woofer or bass speaker is a technical term for a loudspeaker driver designed to produce low frequency sounds, typically from 20 Hz up to a few hundred Hz. Studio monitor and woofer are loudspeakers.
Yamaha NS-10
The Yamaha NS-10 is a loudspeaker that became a standard nearfield studio monitor in the music industry among rock and pop recording engineers.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_monitor
Also known as Near-field monitors, Nearfield monitors, Reference monitors, Studio monitor speaker, Studio monitors, Studio speaker.
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