CHAPTER 6

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Digital Audio Technology

In recent decades, digital audio (and its related industries) has evolved from being an infant technology that was available only to a select few to its present-day position as a primary driving force in audio production, entertainment, and communication. In fact, digital audio and media production has such an impact upon our lives that it’s often an integral part of both the medium and the message within modern-day communication.

Although digital audio is a varied and complex field of study, the basic theory of how the process works isn’t really that difficult to understand. At its most elementary level, it ...

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