The Signal Flow in a Basic recording studio

The studio tweak lives in a world of electrons, and is able to follow them through thick and thin. From the big, fat juicy voltages that make up analog signals to the tiny, rapid-fire ones and zeros of digital audio and MIDI, you need to learn to follow the path of the flow. In the good ol' analog days this was easy as there was always a cable connecting things on the outside and a signal trace inside the gear. Now it gets a little more complicated as the sequencer has virtual pathways through software mixers, effects, synths and processors. But in the end, it once again goes analog and goes to the speakers. The charts below are the basic building blocks. Inside each block there may be hundreds, even thousands of switches, but you need to get the core basic flow down first.

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The Signal Flow in a Basic recording studio

The Signal Flow in a Basic recording studio