Whatever the context, ‘noise’ is a powerful and useful building block within sound design and music production, capable of adding tension, texture, character and movement to our tracks. And thanks to ...

The cold wire carries no signal, but will pick up the same interference as the hot wire. When one is electronically phase-reversed, the noise cancels itself out, leaving a clean signal. Guitars, ...

Thus, Keizer writes, “Lou Reed’s ‘Metal Machine Music’ performed at the Gramercy is not noise; Gregorian Chant piercing my bathroom wall is.” “Unwanted sound” is the basic definition.

As EAs and administrative professionals, your time and attention are valuable. You can’t afford to spend your energy reacting ...

For more than 35 years the NS-2 stomp has been an effective set-and-forget solution to background noise in an electric guitarist's signal chain. Now it's being joined by a "highly tunable" next ...

You've probably heard of active noise-canceling headphones, but what do they do and how do they work? Give us a few minutes and we'll make you an expert.

John Doran admires the noise to signal ratio at Unsound Krakow while taking in Petronn Sphene, Lankum, Aya, Yellow Swans and Lord Spikeheart ...

The science of active noise cancellation involves well-placed, tiny microphones and super-fast math. Experts explain how noise-cancelling headphones work.

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