Audition Amplifier

[Cora Devries]

Sincerewiring your pedal board is not something you want to be doing every time you want to try a new pedal, Audition allows you to patch in a new pedal without having to rewire your entire board. Also use Audition to integrate an amps FX loop without having to re-patch your board.

Audition can be placed anywhere in your signal chain. The first thing you need to decide is which types of pedals you will audition the most. If you are going to audition a lot of overdrive pedals, put Audition closer to the beginning of your signal chain. If you are going to audition modulation, delays and reverbs, put Audition closer to the end of your signal chain. If you are unsure, put Audition after your last overdrive and before your modulation effects.

1. Last dry effect to Audition "In" jack

2. Audition "Send" to amp input

3. FX Send from amp to Audition "Return"

4. Audition "Out" to first modulation / wet effect

5. Last wet effect sends to amp FX Return

The push button is on Audition for musicians running Audition underneath their angled pedal board. Since a lot of angled pedal boards come with side panel jacks, you can now patch Audition into the side panel jacks and turn Audition ON to try a new pedal, or turn Audition OFF to bypass the side panel jacks and pass signal un-interrupted.

The power jacks on Audition are used to power the LED and more importantly to the pedal being auditioned. Plug in 9-18v on the In/Out side of Audition and use the a male to male DC cable to power the pedal you want to try.

NOTE: Make sure the power you send to Audition has enough current (mA) and the correct voltage for the pedal you want to audition. What you feed Audition is what will come out the other side.

Stereo - Use TRS jacks for all connections (In, Out, Send and Return) and you can use Audition to try out a stereo pedal! The white pushbutton will still work as normal to bypass the send and return jacks, or you can simply unplug the send and return to bypass!

IMPORTANT - Use only 9vDC centre negative power! Current draw - 1mA plus the current draw of the pedal being auditioned.

Dimensions - 66mm L x 111mm W x 31mm H (including all jacks and push buttons).

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Unfortunately you will find that it is 'almost impossible' due to the effect that the wind has on the microphone itself and the following amplifier. By the time the audio arrives at the analogue to digital converter it is already distorted and that is something that cannot be removed after the event. Prevention in the first place with a 'dead cat' windshield is really the only way and a forgiving microphone preamp with low frequency cut.

You may find that you can help the audio a bit by using a High Pass filter to reduce some of the bass signal in the audio. Try the Generic High Pass preset in Effects/Filter and EQ/Parametric Equalizer. Adjusting the frequency higher than the default 100Hz position may help more but eventually will take too much out of the wanted audio. But unfortunately it won't remove any of the distortion or 'blustery' noise.

Looks like a challenge for your development team to take on for future versions! There's an algorithm for everything, yes? Yes, a dead cat is best (although it looks silly and is a distraction, especially for lavalier mics), but sometimes, like in my case, my "august" and "noble" coworkers lost all the lav dead cats we had, but the shoot had to go on!

As for wind noise... Once again there's no algorithm, simply because it's random and unpredictable. Whilst the effects can certainly be mitigated, you have to do this manually, and what you have to do will vary a lot. Wind does have the basic characteristic of being a blast, rather than a vibration and the blast isn't 'audio' as such - so no algorithm possible, just on that basis alone.

As Steve says a lot of what 'Wind noise' is is in fact the effect that the wind has on overloading the microphone and the analogue circuits that follow it in the recorder. Even worse effects if there is some automatic gain control involved. So it is not the noise of the wind at all, which would be easier to remove if it was that alone.

I got one of the Dead cat mics, and still got wind noise on my shot mic. I am hoping that maybe a dead cat on a lavalier will help when It comes in. Yes, it is a prolem as most dead cats fall off lavaler mics and wont stay on very well and get lost easily.

I'm sorry, but you clearly haven't understood at all what this question is about; it has nothing to do with noise removal per se. And before anybody else tries to copy the settings you've used for noise reduction in your video, I should point out that they are completely unhelpful. There's no way that setting both sliders to 100% is going to do anything but make your resulting audio sound quite a lot worse than it originally did.

We try to give accurate and helpful answers on this forum, but I'm afraid that yours isn't one. You claimed that you are no audio expert, and with that I can only concur. So may I respectfully suggest that just placing random, irrelevant 'answers' to questions is no way to help anybody, and that sticking to andwers to things that you actually know about might be a better way forward. One of the things you could try is looking at some of the other posts on the forum about noise removal; you'll find that there is rather more to getting good results from it than you might think.

If you seriously think that doing a single NR pass with all the controls set to 100% isn't going to sound significantly worse, then there's something seriously wrong with whatever it is you are monitoring on.

As for beginners learning from videos like this - you have got to be joking. When you start off, you teach people the correct way to do things, not some random way. All that happens otherwise is that they think the tools are faulty when they get inferior results, and then they come complaining here about it, and we have to start over explaining it properly. So all you are doing is making more work for us.

There are YouTube videos all over addressing this. You use a highpass filter. For the love of God stop arguing. I just took the wind out of my own video using that filter and adjusting the Hz. STOP FIGHTING like kids.

Trusting my ears and gut instinct, I knew what I wanted. My Journey In pre owned Hi Fi had begun. I have never looked back and life experience has proved me correct.

The irony is that what was an unaffordable dream then can be easily acquired for very little monies today and my sights are set much higher.

To sum up, I let designers design and I like a system approach. My Meridian system sounds great. My Bluesound system sounds great. My friends Devialet system sounds great. No fuss, no fiddling, just hit play and enjoy the music.

Thoughts, Chris

I think this is misleading. The musical content may be repeated but the CNS is signalling change by detecting the contrast between A and B. That, even if repeated will still occur. Of course, if one is not attending to the process, the mind will wander but that is an issue of attention, not perception. All one needs to do is decide to pay attention and the contrast (if there was one) will be detected. So, if one gets bored with this, do something else for a while.

Good discussion. I attended an in-shop demo of the Kii Three speakers a couple of months back and got talking to the product manager about how to trial them at home. He strongly advised me not to attempt an A/B comparison with my current speakers, in the sense of switching quickly between them. Instead, his advice was to listen to each set of speakers for several periods of at least a day or two. That does indeed seem to be best practice for auditioning systems.

In the above sense, you cannot spontaneously decide to be capable of focusing your attention on something. The repetition-related effect I am referring to must not be confused with a lack of attention or an attention deficit. It is a very healthy and necessary process. There are many names for it. One of them is adaptation.

He strongly advised me not to attempt an A/B comparison with my current speakers, in the sense of switching quickly between them. Instead, his advice was to listen to each set of speakers for several periods of at least a day or two.

Stimulus repetition progressively leads to reduced neural activity. Repeated exposure to an auditory stimulus (same music) with predictable variation (same differences in SQ) progressively leads to reduced attention.

The repetition-related effect I am referring to must not be confused with a lack of attention or an attention deficit. It is a very healthy and necessary process. There are many names for it. One of them is adaptation.

Yes, fundamentally, adaptation and/or habituation. However, dis-habituation can be easily evoked by changing the stimulus or by introducing a novel one. That is why repeated and unvarying A/B trials lose effectiveness but effectiveness can be maintained by changing the program content between trials.

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