Audio Masterclass /ONECourse title: Understanding Audio /ONE
Your journey through Audio Masterclass /ONE
WHERE YOU ARE NOW: You studied sound for a couple of lessons in school science, but they didn't tell you anything useful for pro audio and music production. You wish you could understand frequency, decibels, acoustic treament, and everything else that audio professionals need to know.
AFTER THIS COURSE: You have a very firm grounding in everything you need to know to understand audio all the way through from sound travelling in air, through microphones, preamps, audio electronics, digital audio systems, all the way to monitoring in your own home recording studio. You have full confidence yourself and in everything that's important in pro audio.
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The resolution of a CD-quality digital signal is 16 bits. In other works, the original analog signal is resolved to 65,536 different levels.
Here is a track recorded to 16-bit resolution...
It is useful to know what lower resolutions sound like. You would never use a system with 12-bit resolution, but if you recorded at very low level on a 16-bit system, this could happen by accident. This is what it sounds like...
It doesn't seem to sound much different, although if you listen closely you will hear that the noise level is higher. Here is the same track at 8-bit resolution...
Once again, the noise level is a little higher. But if we drop down to 4-bit resolution, we can really hear the difference...
WARNING: This track sounds extremely unpleasant. You may want to turn your monitor level down.
We can go further, to 2-bit...
And even to 1-bit resolution...
It is amazing that there is...
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