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8. Digital Audio Equipment Home Recording BasicsWelcome to digital audio equipment home recording basics. The home recording studio has become a very creative and flexible system of tools for production and composition. Digital multi-track recording allows the artist build up several different tracks of a recording, one at a time. Digitizing an audio signal is a 'snapshot' of a sound wave at a particular point in time, changing it into a digital audio 'sample'. A 'sample' is made up from 'binary digits', or the numbers '1' and '0'. Binary language is how computers know to turn electric switches 'on or off' determining all the functions and processes it will perform, in this case on a sound recording. The more digital audio 'sample' snapshots taken in a given time period, the more accurate the digital audio waveform representation will be. Audio that becomes digitized in a computer is instantly accessible and can be edited and manipulated in virtually limitless number of ways.
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