The act of transduction involves taking energy in one form and converting it into another. There are plenty of broad implications for this, but in audio, typically we’re talking about taking changes in air pressure and converting them to AC current. Or taking AC current and changing it into changes in air pressure.
It’s just a fancy way of saying things you can hear. In audio, the main two players are microphones and speakers, which often work in the same way. But compressors, like an LA2A, use an optical circuit to convert electricity into light.
And that allows them to react differently than, say, a VCA or an FET compressor. But chew on this. When you learn something, when you experience something new, you literally change your brain.
You connect neurons, your brain chemistry changes, and so yet again, I’ll say it. Perception is the last element in the signal chain, and you are the ultimate transducers. now go transduce something.
