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by Brand, Bra

Being prepared in the eventof a home emergency could limit the potential damage to your home.

Put our useful home safetyguide to the test and make sure your home is safe and sound.

? Burst pipes

Ifyour pipes burst, turn off all stopcocks.

What'sa stopcock? A valve attached to the pipes that stops the flow of water.

Wheredo I find the stopcock? The first stopcock is usually in the kitchen beside orunder the sink. The stopcock for your storage tank that supplies your cisternand bathroom is usually in the bathroom or a bedroom.

Ifyou can't stop the water immediately, turn on all the cold taps to drain thepipes. Don't turn on the hot taps. Turn off your central hearing and electricimmersion heaters.

? Frozen pipes

Ifyour pipes are frozen, turn off the stopcocks.

Ifyou can see that the pipe has split, empty the cold water out. You can do thisby turning on the cold taps, flushing the toilet or by siphoning water fromyour cistern.

Ifthe pipe is intact, thaw it out slowly using hot water bottles or a hair dryer.

Youcan prevent your pipes from freezing by lagging them with foam pipe protectors.

? Gas leak

Turnoff the gas at the control valve.

Whereis the control valve? It is usually attached to the pipe coming off your gasmeter and it is often on the left-hand side.

Openall your doors and windows. Whatever you do, do not light a match, cigarette orturn on electrical switches until the gas has cleared. If there is an openflame burning, put it out. Call Transco, the 24 hour national gas emergencyservice on 0800 111 999 and report your gas leak.

? Fire

Fita British Standard's approved smoke alarm in your house. Make sure it has akitemark and check that the batteries are working at least once a week. Themost effective place to fit a smoke alarm is at the top or bottom of yourstairs (if you have them). If you live in a flat, fit it in a hallway that isbetween your living room and the bedrooms. All smoke alarms should be at least30cm away from the closest light fitting.

? What to do in a fire

Shut the door to the room where the fire is
Close all doors behind you as you leave the building. This starves the fire of oxygen.
Leave the building as quickly as possible
Call 999 from outside the building

? What to do if you are trapped by afire

Stop smoke from spreading by blocking any gaps under the door
Drop to the floor and stay close to the ground to avoid smoke inhalation

Formore information about fire safety, visit .

? How to prevent home emergencies

? Lag your pipes

? Get your boilerchecked every year

? Know where yourstopcocks and control valves are

? Buy essential toolslike a wrench and a torch

? Fit a carbon-monoxidealarm

? Keep a list of emergencynumbers by your phone

? Create an evacuationplan in case of fire

? Ensure your familyknows what to do in an emergency

? cover

Home emergencies can and do happen. Even if you know what to doand how to limit the damage to your home, it is wise to make sure you have enoughhome insurance. Make sure you are covered for the cost of repairs to your homeand/or the replacement of items that are damaged. Most insurance companies alsooffer home emergency insurance that provides additional cover in times of crisis.

Recording technology gives us a lot of different methods for getting the sounds you want into the finished project, as well as removing the sounds you don't. This is all made possible through signal processing. A signal processor is used during the pre-mixing and mixing phases of the recoding process and during set up for instrument recording. Signal processing can be best defined as the conjunction of what must be done in order to turn the sound if the instruments used into a sound wave and the way to mix on order to get the best results from each instrument. Read on for some basic signal processors you should be familiar with.

Equalization - popularly known as EQ, these are used extensively in the process of recording. The idea of EQ us to make a balance between the frequency ranges of different instruments (or not, if that's the effect you want). EQ processing is built into most mixing boards, in software and there are also standalone EQ units.

Filters - Filtering is used to remove sounds that you don't want in your recording. If there is hiss or buzz which you can't get rid of by other means, you can filter these sounds out of your recording. You can do this with software by isolating the sound wave and digitally recalculating the sound alone.

Reverberation - Known as reverb for short, this is generally added after recording the instruments. Reverb adds resonance to the instruments which may have been missing form the original recording. This is an effect which works best on clearly recorded sounds which need a little extra something.

Delay - Delay is used to add an echo effect by signal processors. There are a lot of different types of delay available, from a simulation of different room sizes to delayed attack. You can use delay to create many interesting effects in your recordings.

Dynamic Processing - Dynamic Processing covers a range of different things, all of which are done at the beginning of the recording process. The first is compression, which limits the peaks of the wave, keeping it in the middle of its dynamic frequency range. Next is expansion, which as you may have guessed has the opposite effect. Limiting is third and is essentially the opposite of echo and reverb. The last kind of dynamic processing commonly used is noise gates, which prevent some sounds from being recorded, especially resonance from the instruments.

Noise Reduction - Noise reduction is something which is usually done several times throughout the recording process and acts to dampen unwanted sounds; including limiting highs and lows which you do not want in your finished recording.

These are the most important signal processors used in the process of recording and can help you get exactly the sound you want for your recordings. Through the use of these different signal processing components, you can get the perfect recording every time.

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