The outcome of lesson: The mindset behind great sound production.
Sound production is the journey necessary to facilitate the perception of sound. It needs to be in place to take a sound and make it accessible. From the stage to the audience, from a recording room to a living room, the journey is always the same and it always goes through the same five stages:
1. Input sound field*
2. Input transducers**
3. Signal processing
4. Output transducers
5. Listener sound field
* An enclosure (literal, like a room or conceptual, like an open-air stage) of air where the sound is produced
**Transducer = translator, convertor: from one form of energy into another
Two of the five stages belong to the acoustic domain and three to the electronic domain. We call the latter 3 a sound system.
A sound system is a means (an arrangement of electronic components) with which we are able to relay sound from a source to an audience, for whatever reason and purpose.
Said differently, a sound system is the means that help people to hear.
Most common applications of a sound system: