
It’s picked up by a microphone, which acts as a transducer: a device that turns moving air into electricity, or vice versa. Think of a speaker cone going in and out as it plays, and you can imagine how air is compressed and rarefied, creating a waveform. Our sound begins as moving air – changes in air pressure. In a recording studio, it’s easy to see how a sound gets into your DAW (digital audio workstation), because all of the individual pieces of the audio chain are laid out neatly as separate devices.
