Digital Multi-Track Recording
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Digital Multi-Track Audio Recording
The art of multiple track audio recording has been around since the invention of
audio tape, which was actually created to record multiple tracks to mix down into a stereo pair on a vinyl record. Lately, with the fast growing technology in the area of digital audio, a plethora of mediums are now available for recording multiple tracks of audio.
The first, and still most widely used, form of digital audio recording is the DAT (Digital Audio Tape). The tape itself is very similar to the VHS cassette that most people use in their VCR’s, however, it is formatted just for audio, rather than audio and video. Most DAT recorders can record up to eight tracks of audio at 48 kilohertz (which means that there are 48,000 bits of audio data for each second recorded). This is much higher quality than a compact disc,...