eli5 : What the hell are all those knobs and buttons that you see in professional music studios?

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Like seriously there’s hundreds, do artists know exactly what each one of those function as?

I’ve never been inside one but there are of course images online of music artists in these studios etc

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It looks like a ton, but much of what you’re seeing is the same thing over and over. Each channel strip runs vertically and contains the same knobs for adjustments for the most part. These will usually be noise gates, EQ, compression, sends to other channels or busses, mute and solo switches, faders for overall volume, etc.

Other than the channel strip section there will be some other stuff like master volume, effects and inserts, mix grouping, etc.

Once you learn even a little bit about it it’s really not that complicated.

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