You want the computer to have as much processing power as possible. You’ve finished recording and you start loading up plugins and effects. So, you set the buffer size as low as it will go. Imagine if there was a delay between when you played your instrument and when you heard the audio?įor this reason, you would want to allocate the computer a very small amount of time to process everything. This way you can hear what you’re playing in the speakers or in your headphones. The bass isn’t amplified, so you need to monitor it via your DAW. Here’s an example. You’re recording a bass guitar by plugging it straight in to your audio interface. When you’re recording and monitoring, you want to hear the audio back as quick as possible. It all depends on what you’re doing at the time. It doesn’t affect the quality of your audio. There is no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ setting for buffer size. The buffer size is the amount of time you allocate to your DAW for processing audio. Some people argue that the lack of these frequencies interferes with your audio. If you stretched audio with a low sample rate, you would hear the gaps between the ‘frames’.Ī higher sample rate can also capture ultrasonic frequencies. This is great if you want to stretch the audio out and slow it down in your DAW. A moving image consists of lots of still photos shown very quickly in concession (frames per second).Ī higher sample rate means more ‘frames’ in your audio. Sample rate is how many times your computer takes a snapshot of the audio every second. This means that at a higher bit depth you can record at lower levels and not have to worry about noise when increasing the volume of your recording. If you were to record at a low bit depth and turn the track up, you would hear more noise than if you recorded at a high bit depth and turned the track up. To put it simply – a lower bit depth means more noise. What’s the noise floor? A very small amount of noise generated by all of the electronic components of your recording gear. A larger dynamic range means a bigger difference in volume between your recorded audio and the noise floor.
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