Digital Audio Terms and Standa

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