ScaleLongjumping3606

ScaleLongjumping3606 t1_iwck8jh wrote

Reply to True by Goldeneye07

Neumann has been selling the U87 microphone design since the 1960s, haven’t they? It just gets more expensive every year. Still the best all-around studio workhorse microphone.

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ScaleLongjumping3606 t1_iu7y1r1 wrote

Pink most likely means pink noise

And so you probably just turned off the pink noise generator.

Pink noise is sometimes used for calibration applications in sound studios. Like, for example, when you’re mixing sound for a feature film, at the end the Dolby engineer comes in to make the Dolby encoded audio and they have a special pink noise generator that they use to calibrate the sound of the studio to their theatrical standard.

Not sure what the use is here, but it’s probably related to testing whether your headphones / speakers have a flat frequency response.

See also this handy video explanation.

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