EQ and compression are the two processors that do more to a recorded signal than anything else, and the math underneath both is simpler than the plugin GUIs suggest. We walk biquad filters, the parametric EQ math, attack and release in a compressor, the look-ahead trick, why the same algorithm in a $50 plugin and a $5000 hardware unit can sound surprisingly different, and where the money actually goes.
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Modern Avionics An airliner cockpit in 2026 looks nothing like the 1980s cluttered bank of round dials, and what pilots actually do has been quietly changing for forty years. We walk what a glass cockpit replaces, the Flight Management System, the autopilot and autoland chain, the architecture of triple-redundant flight computers, and the honest gap between manual and automated flight today.