Chapter 3
Audio on a Wire
Rose's Rules
Analog audio wiring will pick up noise, unless you pay attention to some simple voltage and grounding principles.
Digital audio wiring is generally free from noise issues. But it has very high frequencies, so you have to treat it like video—always use impedance-matched cables and terminations.
In most professional facilities, high-resolution audio exists primarily as highspeed data. Dialog that was recorded to hard disk or DVD on the set is opened as files in the editor, with no transfer time; ...
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