A question on A/D and D/A conversion for Classical Music

Analog versus Digital. Observations from an ex-Dolby engineer on the Debate

Analog tape simulation during the mixing process.

Analog Tape, Can I reuse it?

Archiving

Aural Enhancers on the Mix Bus?

A question about -20 dBFS

Acoustical Correction - Automatic

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Baking Old Master Tapes

Balanced and Unbalanced Interfacing

Balanced versus Unbalanced Connections

Bits, isn't 20-bit good enough?

Blinded by Science? A letter from someone who might be too hung up on the importance of the number

Bass Problems

Bit Depth in DAW

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Calibrating the output of a DAW to an Analog Desk

Can I make masters for duplication from an AES/EBU CD Recorder?

Cassettes

CD Replicating

CD Running time - What's the max?

CDRs and boomboxes and car players.

CDR rejected by plant as master

CDR Write Speed - What will give the best quality?

Compression

Concerns on the Epidemic of Hypercompression

Confused Engineer seeks Enlightenment

Converters : 20-bit Converters in the 16-bit ADATs

Cables : 24-bit Cable Impedance Query

CD Master Preparation

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Challenge from a Rap and Hip-Hop Engineer

Changing the world one day at a time

Compression and the DVD

Do We Really Mix for Radio?

Don't quit and grow asparagus

Don't quit, Bob!

Films and Trailers - Getting louder?

The Fugitive versus Titanic (from my compression article)

Good Thing Some Clients have Ears!

How to be Honest with Yourself

Loudness from the Audiophile point of view

Only the best practices from a quality-conscious Viennese Radio engineer

Radio Stations and the Loudness War and good comments on analog PPMs

Comments on the Titanic Soundtrack from a composer - what soundtracks sound good?

Wow! A Program director who knows what happens to overcompressed music on the Radio!

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DAW's and bit transparency. Staying Transparent

DAW's and plug-in's. Current limitations

DC Offset. Clicks and Pops

Differences between PMCD and CD Premasters

Dither and 192kHz Sample Rates

Dither, when to?

Dubbing from digital multitrack to analog multitrack to get that fat sound?

Debate about Dynamic Range, Bit Depth, ...

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EQ Dilemma

EQing the Final Mix

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Fun with Dither and Jitter

Filtering and Overloads

Fixed versus Floating Point Notation

Frankenstein Beast of a Digital/Analog Hybrid Studio

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Gain Changing and Dithering

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ISRC Codes

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Jitter : A Clarification of my Article

Jitter : Digital Patchbays, good or bad?

Jitter : Digital Audio Cables for 24/96

Jitter on CD

Jitter In SCSI & IDE

Jitter : Toslink versus Copper

Jitter : Better Sound?

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Laptop "Audiophile Audio Interface" - An Oxymoron

Levelling Issues Part I

Levelling Issues Part II

Levels - Optimizing

Loud CD's

Loudness Race Discussed

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Mastering Techniques

Mastering vs. Mixing - What is the difference?

Mastering Software

Microphones and 2496 Recordings

Microphones and Phantom Power

Midi and Microphones

Mixing : A Serious Mini-Mixing Lesson

Mixing in the Digital World

Monitor Calibration : What is this "Dolby 85" thing

Monitor Calibration.

Monitoring Levels in the Control Room

Monitor Placement

Monitor Stands - Metal versus Wood?

MP3 Compression : How does it work?

Multiple passes of 16-bit dither?

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Normalization

Nano, Nano! What is this +9 business?

Noise

Normalizing and Wordlength

Normalizing on Individual Tracks or the Entire Mix

Normalizing in Samplers after UV22?

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Preparing for CD Mastering

Problems with Samplitude 2496 and the Teac CD-W58 E CD Writers

Proper Recording and File Levels

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Removing Frequencies in Mastering

RIAA curve: What is it?

Roomtone: What it is and when to use it?

Recording using 24 bits at 96kHz

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Sample Rate Conversion (SRC) or EQ, which comes first?

Silence at the beginning of tracks, do we have to put it? (WAV files, AIFF files)

Space : 16 Bits in a 24-bit Space

Story Time With a Valuable Lesson

Subwoofers

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Three to One Rule

Timing problems in a DAW, can they be caused by jitter?

Transferring Digital Audio from One Platform to Another

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Video as a Clock Master

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Warm Sound - What's the Recipe? Is it EQ? A bit more 200, a bit less 10k?

Word Clock and Digital Interfaces

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Zero dBFS Defined

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