What really bamboozled me when I first made to trip from analogue recording to digital is the folks who insist on using analog audio terms to describe digital recording and processing. They just don't work.

There are no real analogies to bit depth and sample rate in analog audio. They need to be understood without some ancient tape jockey babbling about headroom and frequency response.

The way I look at it, packages of digital audio information are processed to make music. Greater bit depth means the packages are larger. A higher sample rate means the packages are being delivered more frequently.

Clipping and digital distortion are not products of either bit depth or sample rate. Keep your track peaks below -0.25 and they are not going to make the nasty noises - it's that easy.


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Oren.
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