Read 7 pages today. A full short chapter on the technical aspects of digital audio. Topics included:
- sample rate
- the author gives a really nice, concise description for this (complete with a very helpful diagram)
- the Nyquist Theorem
- bit depth
- a.k.a. quantization
- a nice description for this as well
- file size
- and how it's calculated from the aspects above
- professional file formats
- consumer file formats
- time code
- MIDI
It was cool learning the more technical (even scientific) aspects of audio recording (even if it was just a really brief overview). Some of it went over my head a little (though that doesn't really affect my ability to record/create good sound), but it would be cool to research and learn more in depth about this stuff in the future.
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