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Re: [gear] one bit technology for field recording [long msg]

Subject: Re: [gear] one bit technology for field recording [long msg]
From: "Abhijit Menon-Sen"
Date: Tue Apr 3, 2007 8:18 pm ((PDT))
At 2007-04-04 01:02:30 -0000,  wrote:
>
> This process samples the analog voltage from the preamp at a very high
> rate (usually 2.8 million samples per second).  The output is one bit
> only: a zero if the analog voltage is lower than the previous sample,
> or a one if it is higher.

When you first posted about the Korg recorders, I read their white paper
on 1-bit recording, and I failed to understand this part. How come it's
not important to specify the voltage differential more precisely?

-- ams




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