Recording Fundamentals Chapter 10: Signal Flow—When We Listen

In the last installment of Fundamentals, we discussed the path of an au-dio signal as it travels from a sound source through a preamp and to an audio recorder, through the various stages of a professional audio console. But that’s not the only path audio has to follow in our studio!

This time around, we’ll learn about the signal’s route back from the recorder and through the console’s monitor path toward the control room loudspeakers. After all... what’s the use of recording music if you can’t listen to what you’ve recorded?