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Audio FAQ

A

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A question on A/D and D/A conversion for Classical Music   6224
Analog versus Digital. Observations from an ex-Dolby engineer on the Debate   6231
Analog tape simulation during the mixing process   6768
Analog Tape, can I reuse it?   5452
Archiving   4586
Aural Enhancers on the Mix Bus?   6424
A question about -20 dBFS   7414
Acoustical Correction - Automatic   5667

B

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Baking Old Master Tapes   5688
Balanced and Unbalanced Interfacing   5246
Balanced versus Unbalanced Connections   5845
Bits, isn't 20-bit good enough?   5336
Blinded by Science? A letter from someone who might be too hung up on the importance of the number   5314
Bass Problems   5852
Bit Depth in DAW   6152
Bit Depth --- See Also Wordlength   5928
Bass Rolloff in Mastering   7343
Reel to Reel unbalanced inputs and outputs to a balanced DAW   3752

C

Items Rating Hits
Calibrating the output of a DAW to an Analog Desk   5082
Can I make masters for duplication from an AES/EBU CD Recorder?   4363
Cassettes   4195
CD Replicating   5465
CD Running time - What's the max?   5601
CDRs and boomboxes and car players   4492
CDR rejected by plant as master   4888
CDR Write Speed - What will give the best quality?   6710
Compression   5530
Concerns on the Epidemic of Hypercompression   5071
Confused Engineer seeks Enlightenment   4633
Converters : 20-bit Converters in the 16-bit ADATs   4317
Cables : 24-bit Cable Impedance Query   5245
CD Master Preparation   4838

Compression vs Overcompression

Items Rating Hits
Challenge from a Rap and Hip-Hop Engineer   5498
Changing the world one day at a time   4553
Compression and the DVD   4731
Do We Really Mix for Radio?   4480
Don't quit and grow asparagus   4501
Don't quit, Bob!   4818
Films and Trailers - Getting louder?   4628
The Fugitive versus Titanic (from my compression article)   4666
Good Thing Some Clients have Ears!   4251
How to be Honest with Yourself   4561
Loudness from the Audiophile point of view   5014
Only the best practices from a quality-conscious Viennese Radio engineer   4259
Radio Stations and the Loudness War and good comments on analog PPMs   4538
Comments on the Titanic Soundtrack from a composer - what soundtracks sound good?   4527
Wow! A Program director who knows what happens to overcompressed music on the Radio!   6082

D

Items Rating Hits
DAW's and bit transparency. Staying Transparent   4732
DAW's and plug-in's. Current limitations   5067
DC Offset. Clicks and Pops   5315
Differences between PMCD and CD Premasters   4807
Dither and 192kHz Sample Rates   5681
Dither, when to?   6301
Dubbing from digital multitrack to analog multitrack to get that fat sound?   4874
Debate about Dynamic Range, Bit Depth, ...   4959
Downloads   2278

E

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EQ Dilemma   5315
EQing the Final Mix   6703
Equipos digitales - conexion analogica. En Español   2245

F

Items Rating Hits
Fun with Dither and Jitter   4838
Filtering and Overloads   4124
Fixed versus Floating Point Notation   5598
Frankenstein Beast of a Digital/Analog Hybrid Studio   4549
File types in Mastering and DDP   6083
Fle Tagging   4624

G

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Gain Changing and Dithering   4868

H

I

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ISRC Codes   4554
ISRC Codes and CD Text: Reading on a MacIntosh   5278

J

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Jitter : A Clarification of my Article   4627
Jitter : Digital Patchbays, good or bad?   4217
Jitter : Digital Audio Cables for 24/96   4637
Jitter on CD   4944
Jitter In SCSI & IDE   4105
Jitter : Toslink versus Copper   4688
Jitter : Better Sound?   4806

K

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K-System and ITU-R BS.1770   6841
"The Magic of 83 with Film Mixes" or "The Magic of 85 with Film Mixes"   3147

L

Items Rating Hits
Laptop "Audiophile Audio Interface" - An Oxymoron   6853
Levelling Issues Part I   4908
Levelling Issues Part II   4041
Levels - Optimizing   5218
Loud CD's: What's Your Feeling, Bob? (and references to sites about the issue)   4459
Loudness Race Discussed   4461
Linear Phase Equalization   5501
Learning frequencies, is there a software for it....?   3127

M

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Mastering Techniques   5956
Mastering vs. Mixing - What is the difference?   5438
Mastering Software   6033
Microphones and 2496 Recordings   4709
Microphones and Phantom Power   5288
Midi and Microphones   4897
Mixing : A Serious Mini-Mixing Lesson   5333
Mixing in the Digital World   4793
Monitor Calibration : What is this "Dolby 85" thing   5242
Monitor Calibration   6879
Monitor Placement   5280
Monitor Stands - Metal versus Wood?   5298
MP3 Compression : How does it work?   5597
Multiple passes of 16-bit dither?   4497
M/S Techniques in Mixing   5987
Monitor Calibration: Pink Noise   2553

N

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Normalization   4264
Nano, Nano! What is this +9 business?   3918
Noise   4081
Normalizing and Wordlength   5012
Normalizing on Individual Tracks or the Entire Mix   5953
Normalizing in Samplers after UV22?   5318

O

P

Items Rating Hits
Problems with Samplitude 2496 and the Teac CD-W58 E CD Writers   4628
Proper Recording and File Levels   4897
Pyramix   4189

Q

R

Items Rating Hits
Removing Frequencies in Mastering   6426
RIAA curve: What is it?   5598
Roomtone: What it is and when to use it?   4783
Recording With DSD   249

S

Items Rating Hits
Sample Rate Conversion (SRC) or EQ, which comes first?   5154
Silence at the beginning of tracks, do we have to put it? (WAV files, AIFF files)   4659
Space : 16 Bits in a 24-bit Space   5286
Story Time With a Valuable Lesson   4345
Subwoofers   5240
sampler 16 bit   2980

T

Items Rating Hits
Three to One Rule   5159
Timing problems in a DAW, can they be caused by jitter?   3946
Transferring Digital Audio from One Platform to Another   4243

U

V

Items Rating Hits
Video as a Clock Master   4774

W

Items Rating Hits
Warm Sound - What's the Recipe? Is it EQ? A bit more 200, a bit less 10k?   6404
Word Clock and Digital Interfaces   5458
Wordlength - (Best Bit Depth) and Sample Rate   6260

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Z

Items Rating Hits
Zero dBFS Defined   5893