Audio Essentials

Short course

In London

£ 275 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Location

    London

  • 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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  • Audio Essentials

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Location

Start date

London
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291 Gray'S Inn Road, King'S Cross, London, WC1X 8QJ

Start date

On request

About this course

You need no previous experience to attend this course.

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Course programme

Delivery method
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.

Additional information

Payment options: 420 ( + VAT). Prepaid via credit card, bank transfer or cheque. Special offers and new course details are regularly emailed.

Audio Essentials

£ 275 VAT inc.