The DAW

Question 1

MP: What is the audio cd standard (bits)? What is best used for production?

Answer 1

16 bit word length. Every measurement is a 16 bit word. (= 16 bits = 2^16).
24 bit word length.

Question 2

MP: What does a higher bit word length provide you for your recordings?

Answer 2

A wider dynamic range.

Question 3

MP: What do we store in the bit word length?

Answer 3

The amplitude.

Question 4

MP: What is the sampling rate?

Answer 4

How many measurements we make per second. The higher sampling rate, the higher frequency we can represent accurately in the digital domain.

Question 5

MP: Explain nyquist frequency

Answer 5

e.G. if you have a sampling rate of 44100 hertz, we can accurately represent half of that in the digital domain.

Question 6

MP: If we want to record all the human can hear, what should our sampling rate be.

Answer 6

at least 40000 hertz. Because of the nyquist frequency we can represent 20000 hertz digitally.

Question 7

MP: What happens if we increase the sampling rate when playing audio.

Answer 7

We speed up the audio track.