[In our Three-Minute Tech series, we tell you everything you really need to know about a technology in three minutes or less.] The day may come when increased storage capacities and unfettered ...

People mix up the two types of audio compression all the time. Dynamic range and lossy compression are very different things. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ivor Drawmer, maker of classic analog, and now digital, pro audio signal processing equipment, ...

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 ...

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Real-life data confirms (or contradicts) theoretically derived predictions. In a world seemingly obsessed with lossy compression, lossless codecs also have a place. CPUs’ multimedia-tuned features can ...

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 ...

UA’s Capitol Mastering compressor is as useful for individual instrument tracks as it is entire mixes, and brings lovely modern touches into a very vintage-sounding and looking aesthetic. Not the ...

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 ...

This week’s featured white paper from the NewBay Connect resource centre comes from Jünger Audio, and an insight into its Compressor and Expander range. The report states: “Compression is applied to ...