Audio Essentials
Short course
In London
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Type
Short course
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Day
Suitable for: A non-technical course for those who need to know more about compression techniques, file formats and the limitations of digital audio files.
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About this course
You need no previous experience to attend this course.
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Course programme
Classroom based, maximum 5 delegates
Course description
[b]Introduction[/b]
[b]Audio basics [/b]
• The audio spectrum
• Audio dynamic range
• Recording analogue audio
• Analogue media - LPs and tape
[b]Converting to digital audio[/b]
• Digitising audio
• PCM?encoding
• Explanation of sampling rates
• The Nyquist frequency
• Aliasing and anti-aliasing
• Bit depth and dynamic range
• Dither noise and masking dither noise
• Examples of different types of sampling
• Storing PCM Recordings
• PCM as WAV and AIFF
[b]Bit-rate compression of digital audio[/b]
• Why do we need to compress?
• Examples of file formats - mp3, AAF, mp4 etc
• How compression works
• Using different software for compression
• Identifying compression defects and artifacts
• Streaming compressed files
• A-B comparison between uncompressed and compressed examples
Suitable for
A non-technical course for those who need to know more about compression techniques, file formats and the limitations of digital audio files.
Requirements
You need no previous experience to attend this course.
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Audio Essentials