An audio compressor is one of the most important parts of sound design and mixing, but it is also one of the most misunderstood and mis-used. Here Tim Dunphy unravels the mysteries surrounding the ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...

Creating and sharing good audio takes a lot more than a microphone, an app, and a save button. A key editing tool is ...

Compressors are one of the most used audio devices in the professional world and least understood by most nonprofessional users. PreSonus arranged the 16 presets by type of signal. We will use ...

Established leaders and up-and-coming contenders vie for dominance in high-definition-DVD and other emerging applications. Successful analysis requires a beefy computer and robust software tools; a ...

Encoding digital audio data to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. Audio compression typically uses lossy methods, which eliminate bits that are not restored at the other end. ADPCM ...