Glossary

A–B See Spaced-pair method. Also, an A–B test is a listening comparison between two audio programs, or between two components playing the same program, performed by switching immediately from one to the other. The levels of the two signals are matched.

Accent microphone See Spot microphone.

AES67 An audio networking standard intended to make several other audio networking standards work with each other.

Ambience Room acoustics, early reflections, and reverberation. Also, the audible sense of a room or environment surrounding a recorded instrument.

Ambience microphone A microphone placed relatively far from its sound source to pick up ambience.

Amplitude Level, intensity, or magnitude. For a sine wave, the RMS (root mean square) amplitude ...

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