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

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 ...

There are a lot more amplifiers equipped with built-in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) than there were just a couple of years ago. However, while DSP gives users the power to configure and optimize ...

Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called “EnCodec” that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says ...

MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, developed by the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) within the International Organization for Standardization, were the first international standards in the field of high-quality ...

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 ...