[In our Three-Minute Tech series, we tell you everything you really need to know about a technology in three minutes or less.] The day may come when increased storage capacities and unfettered ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...

Data Compression is one of the most important components of this world, driven by petabytes of data daily. We, as humans, are generating data every second. From walking to running, eating to drinking, ...

Real-life data confirms (or contradicts) theoretically derived predictions. In a world seemingly obsessed with lossy compression, lossless codecs also have a place. CPUs’ multimedia-tuned features can ...

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 ...

People mix up the two types of audio compression all the time. Dynamic range and lossy compression are very different things. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a previous article, we discussed analog audio SNR concepts. As mentioned, the dynamic range is ...

Just like your on-air signal, streams need to be processed for level consistency, spectral balance and absolute peak control, ...

Those who started in our field fewer than ten years ago probably don’t remember a time when there wasn’t a streamed version of your radio station available online. When streaming media first became of ...

More often than not, we'd typically process stereo submixes and master mixes using regular stereo processors. And in the case of a compressor, although the left and right channels could be processed ...

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