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Understanding sample rate, bit resolution, file formats, and dither

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Understanding sample rate, bit resolution, file formats, and dither

We already talked about the bit resolution, sample rate, file formats, and dither when we were talking about balancing our mixes earlier in this course. In this video, we'll go into a little more detail, but the same principles apply to balancing your mix as they do to balancing your mastered files. In digital audio, an analog signal is represented by a digital signal through many snapshots of a sound wave per second. The sample rate is how many of these snapshots are taken per second. 44.1 kilohertz means that 44,100 snapshots are taken per second. And 48 kilohertz means that 48,000 snap shots are taken per second. So the simple fact is that the higher the sample rate, the more accurate our digital representation of the actual analog signal will be. The bit resolution, or bit depth, is the number of values used in the digital representation of an analog audio signal. In other words, for every snapshot taken, a different value is a sign to represent the signal's amplitude. The bit…

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