A wonderful part of working in audio is all the technical terms and diagrams.  No matter how much I think I know, there is always something new that makes me scratch my head. One of the early head-scratchers, for me, was the microphone polar chart.  I grew up knowing charts as having an X, Y, and sometimes Z baseline.  Pie charts, well those are pretty easy to understand.  I really shouldn't talk about pie charts when I'm hungry. Yummmmmmmm. Enough food talk and back to the polar [...keep reading]