D/A Converters l Recording Studio Guide
THE DIGITAL RECORDING STUDIO: A Practical Guide to Music Recording
By: James@audiomecca, copyright 2007.
Digital to Analog Converters
The
translation from your hard disk to an analog audio signal is very
accurate. The modern recording studio edits and processes digital audio
as a digital file from a hard disc, where the sound file is stored. To
bounce a song or album to a CD, a digital to analog converter must
translate digital audio back into an audio signal before it can be
written to disc. Conversion from a digital audio file to CD, is
resistant to errors (i.e. tape hiss, distortion, etc.) that converting
to or from tape is prone to have. This makes audio conversion from
hard disk the most practical method for producing an accurate
translation. The conversion process is the same with whatever you are
recording onto, (cd, tape, mini-disk) but the quality is dependant on
that of the A/D/A converter.
Digital/Analog Conversion is
simply the reverse process of Analog/Digital Conversion. This conversion
is explained in detail in our A/D converter section. (Jump to the Analog
to Digital conversion section here)
In
summary, the binary numbers of digital
audio are translated back into an analog signal. A DAT machine, MO drive, sampler, compact disk and DVD
recorder, all use-the same conversion process.
