Digital Audio: Part 9 - Representing Data March 18^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

The advantages of digital audio for recording purposes are clear, but once in the digital domain, productions steps also need to be carried out. Recorders don’t care about the encoding method, which is instead optimized for production purposes.

Digital Audio: Part 7 - Debunking The Myths Around Hi-Fi Audio January 21^st 2021 - 09:00 AM

It’s interesting to compare the quality that can be obtained using digital audio with legacy media such as the vinyl disk and magnetic tape.

Digital Audio: Part 6 - Noise Shaping December 15^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Noise shaping performs an important role in digital audio because it allows hardware to be made at lower cost without sacrificing performance, and in some cases allowing a performance improvement.

Digital Audio: Part 5 - The Mathematics Of Oversampling November 18^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Oversampling is a topic that is central to digital audio and has almost become universal, but what does it mean?

The Sponsors Perspective: Capturing Immersive Audio November 10^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Strategies for capturing immersive audio for scene and object-based audio.

The Sponsors Perspective: Monitoring Immersive Audio November 2^nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

Genelec Senior Technologist Thomas Lund starts down the road to ideal monitoring for immersive audio by looking at what is real, and how that could or should be translated for the listener.

The Sponsors Perspective: Effectively Using The Power Of Immersive Audio October 27^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Lawo’s Christian Scheck takes a tour of console functions and features that have a special place in immersive audio production, and how they are developing.

Digital Audio: Part 3 - The Mathematics Of Sampling September 14^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Digital audio relies completely on sampling and no treatment of the subject can be complete without looking at how it works.

The Sponsors Perspective: The Personal HRTF - An Aural Fingerprint September 8^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

HRTF stands for Head Related Transfer Function and, simply put, is a catch-all term for the characteristics a human head imparts on sound before it enters the ear canal. Everything from level tonal changes caused by our head, shoulders, and pinna (external ear parts), to arrival-time differences (Interaural Time Difference,…

Digital Audio: Part 2 - The Historical Evolution Of Digital Audio Systems August 13^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Digital audio has a remarkably short history, but apart from a few enthusiasts of legacy technology, the takeover has been total.