CHAPTER 11

Audio Production

The notion of media will be completely blended in one digital stream. Moving pictures and static pictures and text and audio—the mix of any of those will be commonplace. Imagine turning the pages of a magazine: every one of the images is a sound clip, and when you put your cursor over one of them, the audio comes. That’s absolutely going to be happening in 15 years. Full convergence of media and television and computers.

—Jim Clark, Computer Scientist and Founder of Silicon Graphics Inc. and Netscape, (1994)

Chapter Highlights

This chapter examines:

image  The nature of sound and audio

  The audio chain and signal flow

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