Full Version: Is there any sound engineer in this forum?
I just want to know if there are some sound engineer here. My friend who is sound engineer is anti audio compression and even anti digital recording. So many times I've explained to him that digital recording is good but he still insisted that digital is bad because you cannot get any value at any time. Then I explained to him that 16 bit digital snr is more than enough, in fact there are many hardware support 24-bit. Yeah, I can understand him as conservative person.
QUOTE(mp3chan @ Feb 20 2003 - 03:04 AM)
I just want to know if there are some sound engineer here.
You mean the self-claimed "phreaky" style or people who studied this profession for several years and are working for broadcasting stations and recording studios?
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My friend who is sound engineer is anti audio compression and even anti digital recording.
Then he probably belongs to the first category. Maybe you should tell him about Ogg Vorbis and/or MPC... B)
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So many times I've explained to him that digital recording is good but he still insisted that digital is bad because you cannot get any value at any time.
I don't know what this should mean, sorry.
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Then I explained to him that 16 bit digital snr is more than enough, in fact there are many hardware support 24-bit. Yeah, I can understand him as conservative person. ;)
It's better not to deal with religion too much, especially when you want to keep him as a friend.
I'm sound engineer for university career, although I don't work as such. I agree with hans-jürgen appreciations. I guess your friend has not really studied engineering.
QUOTE(hans-jürgen @ Feb 20 2003 - 07:50 AM)
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So many times I've explained to him that digital recording is good but he still insisted that digital is bad because you cannot get any value at any time.
I don't know what this should mean, sorry.
Sorry for my bad english. I mean, in the digital domain, amplitude of the signal is definied by resolution. For instance, 16-bit sound devide amplitude to 322768 at positive and 322767 at negative value. So that's mean you only can get integer value from 1, 2 ,3 ... 322768. You can not get 1.2, 2.1. In analog you can get any value for amplitude. That's what I mean.
QUOTE(mp3chan @ Feb 20 2003 - 09:10 AM)
In analog you can get any value for amplitude.
Tell your friend this is not true. In analog you are limited too, from background noise and clipping or distortion at high levels, and regarding recording and playback, quite more limited than in good digital. Today, with current inexpensive consumer 24/96 cards we have better recording and playback capabilities than any analog tape recorder at recording studios. Even good consumer 16 bit cards are today on the level of best analog recorders.
QUOTE(KikeG @ Feb 20 2003 - 09:05 AM)
QUOTE(mp3chan @ Feb 20 2003 - 09:10 AM)
In analog you can get any value for amplitude.
Tell your friend this is not true. In analog you are limited too, from background noise and clipping or distortion at high levels, and regarding recording and playback, quite more limited than in good digital. Today, with current inexpensive consumer 24/96 cards we have better recording and playback capabilities than any analog tape recorder at recording studios. Even good consumer 16 bit cards are today on the level of best analog recorders.
Hmmm... That's a good point! Thanx. I'll tell him.
In a discussion about the sound of digital copies, I was lead to explain this in detail : http://forum.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?s...6461#post375166
Especially the second of my post from the linked point.
Especially the second of my post from the linked point.
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