[sdiy] Taking a Step towards Digital Synthesis?....

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Jay Schwichtenberg" <jays at aracnet.com>
Subject: RE: [sdiy] Taking a Step towards Digital Synthesis?....
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:01:04 -0800
Message-ID: <GIENKCIFHELNLLEPMBNMGEBBCOAA.jays at aracnet.com>

> I know that the early Sony recorders that recorded on video tape (at that
> time it was Beta) used something like 44.05 kHz. It was because that worked
> well to pack audio into a video frame.

That sampling rate is still in use... for NTSC video. It is really 44100/1,001
Hz. This is due to the drop-frame approach of making things less obviously
synchronous (really just adjusting the reoccurence frequency to be much lower).

> I think that 48 kHz is used in broadcast now days.

Yes. At least in Europe where EBU put a standard out for it.

Cheers,
Magnus