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Where hum actually comes from

Power distro, grounds, and the sixty-cycle tax. A field guide to the noise your rig makes when nobody is playing.

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One resistor, one capacitor, and a knob that's lying to you: how an analog EQ actually works

Forget the mixing tips. This is the electronics: what really happens when you sweep a mid, why a Pultec can boost and cut the same note at once, and the op-amp cheat hiding inside almost every console built since 1970.

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Four hundred channels and one piece of dirt: how festival RF coordinators actually do the math

What festival RF coordinators actually do: the tool stack, the advancing, the unspoken hierarchy, and the intermod math. Part 1 of 3.