![]() It does't mean though, that to reproduce a CD, you must capture the audio in 44Khz and 16 bits. Bluray: reproduces from 96 to 192kHz (Sample Rate) and 24 bits (Bit Depth).DVD: reproduces audio and video in 48 kHz (Sample Rate) and 16 or 24 bits (Bit Depth).CD: reproduces audio in 44.1kHz (Sample Rate) and 16 bits (Bit Depth).Here are some Sample Rates and Bit Depths of known media formats: If with cameras we measure resolution in MegaPixels, in audio we do it in Bits. The most common values of audio bit depth we find today are 16 bits and 24 bits. And Bit Depth is precisely all about the quality of what we capture. As important as to have many captures, to be able to have fidelity to the real thing, it is to have good captures. But what if they are bad photos, of low quality? How will our video be? Well, bad. With 44.1 KHz of sample rate, we take 44.100 "photos" each second. If we compare again with a video, the Bit Depth is the resolution of the pictures you took. Now, getting up to $18 only with $10 bills is a little complicated, isn't it? How to do it? Should I round it down? Pretend 18 is 20? Using this analogy, if you only have $10 bills and you need to get to $18, it means your Bit Rate was too low. That's a lot of coins, but I can certainly do it. I can get as far as $18 only with 1 cent coins. We can achieve any amount of money by adding cent after cent. When it comes to coins, the 1 cent coin is the smallest unity there is. In our case, samples collected (pictures taken) per second.īut are those the only things that determines recording quality?Īudio Bit Depth: the resolution of each sample Hertz is the unity that represents cycles per second. When we talk about Sample Rate, we are precisely considering that: the more pictures I got of a certain event, better represented and more fluent it will be, whatever it is that I am filming. If in a film of thirty seconds you only have three pictures, the quality of your film will be terrible, right? In an analog camera, it is how many "pictures" or "frames" you have in one second of film. Very quickly: Sample Rate is the number of samples you have, in a second, of you analog signal. The ideas of Bit Depth, Sample Rate and Bit Rate only have meaning here, in the digital world. You can't create quality virtually you can only do that recording it again.ĭifference between an analog and digital sound wave After that, this audio will be limited by the rate you chose to record with. Because of that, there is a lot of effort to ensure that the digital audio will be as rich as before it was captured. There lies the challenge of representing the analog wave with a series of numbers. That way, after being captured by microphones, the wave goes through a A/D Converter ("analog to digital") in the audio interface input. Today, it all goes inside the computer.ĭifferently from analog recording, digital recording is all about "0s and 1s". In the earlier days of recording, we used to capture analogically in magnetic tapes. Analog audio behaves as it does in the real world: through waves that propagate in the air. Without wasting time with philosophical explanations, analog is everything that can be compared to nature. The bigger your bit depth, more dynamic variation you'll be able to capture. ![]() Third: The number of bits determines your dynamic range.If you want 24, record it in 24 from the beginning! From 16 to 24 you will be injecting noise in your recording to cover up the bit wholes that don't exist in the original. ![]()
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