Ask Video AudioPedia 103 Digital Audio Terms and tandards [TUTORiAL]

The NLE AudioPedia series, our video-based audio encyclopedia, is a comprehensive dictionary of audio terminology. It's an invaluable resource for sound engineers, musicians, students, educators and all audio enthusiasts. This first installment is about Sound Waves and Hearing.

AudioPedia - noun | Au·di·o·Pe·di·a | [aw-dee-oh-pee-dee-uh] An animated, short format video informational resource explaining in plain English all aspects of audio: acoustics, mixing, mastering, recording, digital audio terms, microphones, recording, and more.

Created by our audio expert Joe Albano, AudioPedia is the ultimate audio reference tool. Here are the topics covered and defined in the first installment of this authoritative series:

Digital Audio Terms and Standards

• Digital Audio
• PCM, LPCM | WAV, AIFF
• ADC | Analog to Digital Converter
• DAC | Digital to Analog Converter
• Sampling
• Sample Rate | Sampling Rate
• Nyquist Theory | Nyquist Rule
• Aliasing | Anti-Aliasing Filter
• Quantization (ADC)
• Bit Resolution | Bit Depth
• Quantization Distortion | Quantization Error | Rounding Error
• Dither
• Oversampling | 1-Bit | Delta-Sigma
• Hi-Res Digital Audio | 24|96
• Data Compression | Data Reduction
• Lossless | Lossy Codecs - FLAC, ALAC | MP3, MP4, AAC
• Bitrate
• Perceptual Coding

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