Audio Engineering: Know It All

Chapter 17. Digital Audio Recording Basics

Once conversion from analogue signals into the digital domain has taken place, audio becomes data and a digital audio recorder is no more than a data recorder adapted to record samples from convertors. Provided that the original samples are reproduced with their numerical value unchanged and with their original time base, a digital recorder causes no loss of information at all. The only loss of information is due to the conversion processes unless there is a design fault or the equipment needs maintenance. In this chapter John Watkinson explains the various techniques needed to record audio data.

17.1. Types of Media

There is considerably more freedom of choice of digital media than was the case for ...