Re: [ARSCLIST] Cassette obsolescence - digitizing standards

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Dave Bradley" <db65@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Applying certain effects to 16 bit audio if editing in 16 bit
> >resolution could result in loss of resolution could it not?
>
> Simply normalizing the audio will result in loss of resolution.  You
> don't need a complex effect for that to happen if you process a
> 16-bit sample at 16-bits. Again, it's never a simple addition or
> subtraction. All calculations are multiplication. You WILL get
> errors. 16-bit processing is only adequate for 8 bit (or smaller) samples.
>
Another question...
When you use "16-bit sample," do you mean that the value is represented
by a 16-"digit" binary number, and can thus have any of 65,536 values
(from 0 to 65,535)...right? So that means that the value of the step
(say 30000) actually represents an analog value that could be anything
from 29999.50..1 to 30000.49..9, which makes the maximum inaccuracy
1/(65536/2)...is right?

Steven C. Barr