Chapter 17
Shaping sound
This chapter offers a short digression, to revisit some predecessors of today’s virtual studio. The technology was far less powerful, but this did not limit the imagination of its users. Some of what was achieved by slow and complicated analogue procedures is now available as just a small selection from the huge range of facilities on digital signal processors (DSPs), and the names for the effects (often reflecting their analogue origins) are unchanged.
Here we will take a look at how developments in audio technology opened up new ways of shaping sound, and review a few that, although now in decline, might still have uses or could possibly lead in new directions. Long before the digital era, it was clear that ...
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