The Friendly Neighborhood Philosopher Podcast

Signal To Noise Ratio - Filtering Out Noise, Finding The Music

Adam Swenson

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As a on again/off again live sound engineer, we are always thinking about signal to noise ratio. Or, why is that speaker humming? It's keeping me from hearing the vocals clearly! 

In daily life we are bombarded with influencers and newscasts designed to promote outrage and/or to generally obscure facts and data that don't look good. 

Here's how to maximize "signal" (the good) while minimizing "noise" (the extraneous).