Signal Processing

EQ, dynamics, and the circuits and math behind the knobs.

Signal Processing

You can't hear it when it's right: compression from the first knob to the mix bus

The Woodshed. Weekly long-form, July 2026. For anyone on the crew who owns a threshold knob. Compression is the most-used and worst-understood processor in live sound. Every channel strip has one. Most engineers learned it by copying a screenshot of someone else's settings, and a

Signal Processing

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.