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iPad and iPhone For Musicians For Dummies
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iPad and iPhone For Musicians For Dummies

by Ryan C. Williams, Mike Levine
February 2015
Beginner to intermediate
408 pages
10h 17m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 13

Getting the Best Recording Quality

In This Chapter

arrow Understanding the basics of digital audio resolution

arrow Keeping your signals clean with plenty of headroom

arrow Practicing proper track management

arrow Making enough room for all of your audio tracks

Audio formats come in so many different files and formats, each with its own specific advantages, disadvantages, advocates, and detractors. Do a little research on a specific type of audio, and you’re bound to find a wealth of opinions on both sides of the debate. So how do you sort everything out? Well, you start with some basic principles and work your way out from there.

In this chapter, we establish the basic principles for digital audio that you should keep in mind while recording any audio, and then we delve deeper into your available tools to choose the right ones for the project. It just seems like you’re drowning in audio options. Grab on to your audio lifeline, though, and everything will be just fine.

Understanding Audio Settings

We already looked at bit depth and sample rates in Chapter 1. And when you’re dealing ...

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