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Playback controls on a CD player. Control symbols on a Sony Betamax Portable. In digital electronics, analogue electronics and entertainment, the user interface may include media controls, transport controls or player controls, to enact and change or adjust the process of video playback, audio playback, and alike.
Audio signal flow. Audio signal flow is the path an audio signal takes from source to output. [1] The concept of audio signal flow is closely related to the concept of audio gain staging; each component in the signal flow can be thought of as a gain stage . In typical home stereo systems, the signal flow is usually short and simple, with only a ...
Blumlein pair. Blumlein pair is a stereo recording technique invented by Alan Blumlein for the creation of recordings that, upon replaying through headphones or loudspeakers, recreate the spatial characteristics of the recorded signal. The pair consists of an array of two matched microphones that have a bi-directional ("figure-eight") polar ...
Audio feedback (also known as acoustic feedback, simply as feedback) is a positive feedback situation that may occur when an acoustic path exists between an audio output (for example, a loudspeaker) and its audio input (for example, a microphone or guitar pickup ). In this example, a signal received by the microphone is amplified and passed out ...
A diagram of monaural sound. Monaural sound or monophonic sound (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position. This contrasts with stereophonic sound or stereo, which uses two separate audio channels to reproduce sound from two microphones on the right and left side, which is reproduced with two separate loudspeakers to give a sense of the ...
Microphone practice. A didgeridoo miked with a small phantom powered condenser microphone that clips onto the instrument. There are a number of well-developed microphone techniques used for recording musical, film, or voice sources or picking up sounds as part of sound reinforcement systems. The choice of technique depends on a number of ...
A CD player is an electronic device that plays compact discs, which are a type of digital optical disc used for data storage. CD players were first sold to consumers in 1982. CDs typically contain recordings of audio material such as music or audiobooks. CD players may be part of home stereo systems, car audio systems, personal computers, or ...
The basic features of a portable CD player are: Play/Pause button. Stop button. Rewind button. Fast forward button. Hold button (some models) Liquid crystal display. Headphone/Audio out socket. The play/pause button allows the user to pause in the middle of a track (song) and resume play where the listener left off by pressing the button again.