Digital Audio Recommended Articles

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 The Digital Audio article in our online Manual is a quick entry-level primer about some basic terms essential to Audacity like sample rates and sample formats, clipping and file size compression. Jump to the Glossary for brief descriptions of a wider range of terms like frequency, wavelength or dynamic range, and about how MIDI differs from audio formats like WAV.

For further reading, the Digital Audio Technology category on this Wiki has a small number of fairly easy articles expanding on specific topics such as Dither and Sample Rates.  If you're less interested in the theory and more interested in the practicalities of setting up a computer to record audio, we have pages such as "Connecting your Equipment" which explain the different kinds of audio connectors. 

Other Sites

 * Harmony Central has many user-oriented articles on mixing, mastering, effects and use of digital audio software. They also have a good intermediate level series of articles on effects including compression, reverb, noise gating and so on.


 * Julius Orion Smith has an of technical pages offering a mathematical exposition of advanced digital audio subjects such as sampling theorem, aliasing and resampling.