Amplifiers & Preamps

Audio signals spend most of their time as very light distortions in an electrical current, which can be passed through diaphragms to transmit the current into small pressure changes the flutter...

Designing a sound studio with good sound reduction material can be rather expensive. However, you can create inexpensive, less professional studios with other material used for the sound reduction...

The easiest way to amplify sound is to simply plug a microphone into an amplifier. If you don't happen to have electronic equipment lying around, however, you can use acoustic principles to...

An electric amplifier (or simply "amp") is used, as its name suggests, to increase the amplitude of sound waves produced by a source, such as an electronic instrument. The frequency (or number of...

Most main speakers are unable to handle the response to deliver sound waves at bottom low frequencies. Therefore leaving this to the home audio subwoofers to send the frequencies to the...

The term "amplifier" is generally used to refer to the components that produce sound in musical (and audio) equipment. But to understand how amplifiers work, it is important to relate the process...

Mixing down music is a complex art, full of subtleties and often dependant on individual tastes. This is a primer on different techniques to use when mixing down your music.

Getting different tones on an electric guitar amplifier can be obtained by adjusting four basic settings: the volume, the gain, the equalization (EQ), and the reverberation. Your settings will...

An integrated amplifier, which contains a pre-amplifier and a power amplifier in the same box, provides significantly better sound quality than a receiver but generally not as good quality as a...

A power amplifier combined with a separate pre-amplifier generally provides the best possible sound quality in a stereo system, and the separate components provide a flexible upgrade path.

A pre-amplifier combined with a separate power amplifier generally provides the best possible sound quality in a stereo system, and the separate components provide a more flexible upgrade path. A...