Dub Step Wobble

I decided to do my last two sound alterations on more modern alterations.  Even if a trumpet plays purely into a microphone, the microphone is connected to a sound board and that sound board can mess around with the sound before sending it through to the speakers.  We'll be looking at some things sound boards can do to your sounds.

If you have ever seen a music recording studio, whether in real life or on tv, you'll have seen something that looks like the picture to the right.  This is a sound board.  As you can see, it has a bunch of different buttons and switches and sliders that are used to take multiple inputs (like different mics for different instruments) and make it into one wave, one sound.  So not only does it combine the waves together, but you can also alter each wave individually or as a unit.  You can put a filter on it so only higher frequencies pass through, or only lower frequencies.  It can pick an choose certain notes to add or take away.  It can amplify one quiet harmon muted trumpet while scaling down the loud proud trombonist.  Some say this kind of power takes away from the musicians.  It should be up to the musicians on how loud they play and what they want to do with the notes.  I'm sure if this kind of tech was around during Monk's time, they would have filtered out those dissonant notes thinking they were mistakes.  This leads to the question, can jazz persist if soundboards take over?  Will jazz once again transform into something new, utilizing the sound board and it's capabilities?  I have faith in the pervasive jazz musicians out there.  Jazz is as american as bald eagles, and I'd be crazy to think that new technology would ever stop jazz.

A newer type of alteration is called Wobble.  It is a low frequency oscillator, so it takes bass notes and makes them loud then soft then loud then soft, over and over, pretty quickly.  Considering notes are just oscillating waves them selves, the idea is to oscillate an oscillating waveform.  What you end up with is known as wobble.  At 1: 50 on the following clip is a good example of what a wobbled note is.