Digital Audio Terms and Standa

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The NLE AudioPedia series, our video-based audio encyclopedia, is an invaluable resource for sound engineers, musicians, students, educators and all audio enthusiasts. This third installment is about Digital Audio Terms and Standards.

AudioPedia - noun | Au·di·o·Pe·di·a | [aw-dee-oh-pee-dee-uh] An animated, short format video informational resource explaining in plain English all aspects of audio: acoustics, mixing, mastering, recording, digital audio terms, microphones, recording, and more.

Our AudioPedia series is a comprehensive video dictionary of audio terminology. Created by audio expert Joe Albano, this encyclopedia of technical terms is the ultimate audio reference tool. Here are the topics covered and defined in the thirdi installment of this authoritative series:




Digital Audio Terms and Standards

Digital Audio
PCM, LPCM | WAV, AIFF
ADC | Analog to Digital Converter
DAC | Digital to Analog Converter
Sampling
Sample Rate | Sampling Rate
Nyquist Theory | Nyquist Rule
Aliasing | Anti-Aliasing Filter
Quantization (ADC)
Bit Resolution | Bit Depth
Quantization Distortion | Quantization Error | Rounding Error
Dither
Oversampling | 1-Bit | Delta-Sigma
Hi-Res Digital Audio | 24|96
Data Compression | Data Reduction
Lossless | Lossy Codecs - FLAC, ALAC | MP3, MP4, AAC
Bitrate
Perceptual Coding

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Digital Audio Terms and Standards
18 videos | 25 minutes | by Joe Albano