AUDIBILITIES
By Emmet Robinson
King Street Recording Company
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Volume 74, Winter, 2020        610-647-4341      
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Digital Audio – Fact and Fiction
 
There are a great number of popular myths and misunderstandings about the capabilities of digital audio. The fact is, most things take longer than we expect them to. There are good reasons for this.
In creating a CD from an old 78-rpm record or original tape, original recordings will only play in real time. That means that a 60-minute record or tape will actually require a full hour to play.
In that hour, using a real-time CD burner, the original recording can be transferred directly to a CD. Although that sounds simple enough, there is a downside to that method: there will be no control over either the sound quality or the recording level. Skipped grooves, unwanted noise or sudden changes in recording level on the original will become part of the CD copy. No corrections are possible. Failed tape splices will require stopping the process, repairing the tape, and starting over again
A better approach is to use that same hour to create a Digital Session File in the computer to provide full control of all of these factors. Once created, the Digital Session File can be manipulated in many different ways.

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