Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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monty's excellent video about digital audio and bit depth: youtu.be/cIQ9IXSUzuM

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0:00 intro
0:25 what is sound?
1:49 how does a microphone work?
3:24 microphone polar patterns
4:35 constructive vs destructive interference
5:30 cupping the mic
6:11 how does sound get turned into digital data?
7:23 the myth of stairstep digital audio
8:27 nyquist theory
9:11 what is bit depth?
9:59 noise to signal ratio and quantization noise
11:02 signal flow basics
11:36 "gain staging"
12:38 "clipping" your input
13:33 analog to digital converter and sound storage mediums
15:18 signal flow inside of a DAW
17:30 what is EQ?
18:13 phase and EQ
19:16 digital EQs and digital delay lines
20:38 what is compression?
22:20 compressing multiple sources together
23:35 compressing a single transient heavy source
24:30 LOUD IS GOOD
24:51 outro