Chapter 13
Getting the Best Recording Quality
In This Chapter
Understanding the basics of digital audio resolution
Keeping your signals clean with plenty of headroom
Practicing proper track management
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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