Talk:Digital recording

External links only advertising
Unfortunately the external links appear to be sites that only sell things (and do not provide any free, useful information). People looking for these things can probably find them through search engines, TV, etc.-- the companies can pay for advertising there.

Most problematic seem to be the following links. If someone that watches this page wants to defend their being here, they are welcome to discuss this here; if no one bothers, in a week or so I will delete them.


 * 1) School of Audio Engineering - Global Portal
 * 2) Music Production School - SAE Institute, Byron Bay - Providing Audio Engineering Courses.
 * 3) Software for the Digital Studio

Meanwhile I will try to find more useful external link content. Matthew K 17:08, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I would like to know what insight you can provide about the fact that some companies are once again recording in vinyl due to demand from audiophiles that claim that vinyl provides a warmer sound.Radical man 7 19:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Zoom H4
I bought a Zoom H4 Handy Recorder this month, and I'd like to share what I've learned about its operation in recent weeks. I hope this won't violate WP:OR. ;-) --Uncle Ed 01:42, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

External link
http://www.xinglogic.com was added as an external link recently; having an open mind, I looked at the page and reviewed 'about us', 'audio', and 'services' and found nothing that would be of use to a person trying to create wikipedia-licensed audio files. This link is to a company which sells studio time... and in my opinion doesn't belong here. If you have a reason for listing this page which I have overlooked, please comment here. Matthew K 18:36, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

No Sources and Wrong Information
This page has no sources whatsoever. Though I know the topic enough to recognize that it is copied off other web pages, some of it is wrong, like this:

* In 1984, AMS launches the AudioFile — the world’s first commercial hard disk recording system

The world’s first commercial hard disk recording system is variously credited to AMS, EMT, and PPG, but the world’s first commercial hard disk recording system was actually the New England Digital Synclavier II with the (16-bit, up to 50kHz, one track) Sample-to-Disk Option which came out in 1981-82. These other systems have been backdated by telling history falsely, a look at the back panel of any one of them shows interfaces supporting protocols and machines that didn't even exist when the machines are now claimed to have been made, like SCSI, Sony PCM-701, AES/EBU, MADI, and the Sony 9-pin RS-422 protocol. I can't find any web source to source this into this page, and most "sources" on this topic are also wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.235.241.93 (talk) 04:36, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Synclavier is now in the timeline. Binksternet (talk) 15:39, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Audio or video?
This page looks like it was written with only digital audio in mind and then had digital recording of video tacked on as an afterthought. Digital video recording should be treated more fully here or excised entirely. I made a small attempt to weave video a little better into the text. Binksternet (talk) 15:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree the DV was added later, and not well integrated. I thought about creating separate "Digital Audio" and "Digital Video" sub-heads, until I stopped and thought:  Wait a minute -- "digital recording" is digital recording regardless of whether the output is audio or video.  The process is identical, the 0s and 1s don't care how the signal is decoded afterward.  It's all the same in how it's encoded and stored.  Maybe somebody can make it read less confusingly, but on reflection, both DV and DA are "digital recording."Rcarlberg (talk) 02:23, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

can i record
is there an experement to record —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.20.187.148 (talk) 00:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Ry Cooder's Bop 'Til You Drop or Giorgio Moroder's E=MC2 ?
Are you sure Ry Cooder's Bop 'Til You Drop is the the first digitally recorded album. I thought it was Giorgio Moroder's E=MC2 released in Europe in 1979 ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.34.56.255 (talk) 17:06, 30 May 2009 (UTC)


 * E=MC2 was released 27 August 1979. Bop Till You Drop was released July 1979.  Both albums are pretty bad. And both were eight years after the "first digitally recorded album."Rcarlberg (talk) 14:24, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Why is HDTV in the timeline?
Digital television broadcasting would belong, perhaps (although it isn't a development of the technique, just a usage of it) but HDTV is totally irrelevant. A HDTV could be driven at full resolution by an analogue signal, it's just a display. I will be removing this in a couple of days if nobody can justify it. I may also make further changes to the timeline, which isn't particularly illuminating in its current state! 90.214.85.73 (talk) 14:03, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

History Section Still Not Right
I just removed this laughable garbage from the history section:


 * In 1985 Akai announced the 12 track mixer and tape recorder. This tape format used for simultaneously recording 12 tracks of digital audio at once, onto Super VHS magnetic tape - a format similar to that used by consumer VCRs. Recorder used the dbx type II for better head-room.[citation needed]

The 80s (1988 or so) Akai 12-tracks were not only analog, but possibly the worst sounding analog format aside from the Portastudio cassette 4-tracks.

I'd like to raise a question about this next section:

* In 1982, the first digital compact discs are marketed,[4] and New England Digital offers the hard disk recorder (Sample-to-Disk) option on the Synclavier, the first commercial hard disk (HDD) recording system.[5]

It is often said that the Synclavier was the first commercial hard disk recording system, but the way that is worded suggests that there were one or more non-commercial, in-house, or home made hard disk recording systems in use before NED started shipping the Synclavier II Sample-to-Disk Option in great numbers in very early 1982. Aside from the prototype that NED themselves were using in 1981, what were these other systems? I don't know about them, and various claims about their existence are false and I've been able to prove it for the most part, as on the AMS talk page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:AMS_(Advanced_Music_Systems)

If anyone can mention previous non-commercial systems, I would appreciate it.--75.79.150.71 (talk) 07:40, 6 March 2012 (UTC)--75.79.150.71 (talk) 07:43, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

For what it's worth, this article comprises mostly PCM digital recording hardware, but no word of alternative devices relying upon other encoding techniques, such as the DBX-700 (ADPCM) in 1986 that despite a greater dynamic range than 16-bit digital audio overall seemed to be plagued by a 58db S/N ratio at 20KHz, and then the emergence of DSD recorders https://eudorarecords.com/dsd-512-its-here/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cquarksnow (talk • contribs) 23:11, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

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not just audio or video
The original seismometer recorded earthquake related activity on paper. These days, almost all instruments can record digitally, regardless of what kind of medium they are sampling. Loosely speaking, your banking transactions are also digitally recorded, though I suspect this is not what is mean by the phrase "digital recording". I suspect that phrase refers to analog signals, but not sure about modern usage. Can we add sections to address other mediums? Dpleibovitz (talk) 03:33, 6 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Articles have a defined scope and the first sentence of the lead constrains the scope here to AV. Nothing is broken. The question is whether we expand the scope of this article to include new material or would be better for that new material go somewhere else like Digital signal or Seismometer. ~Kvng (talk) 20:16, 8 March 2024 (UTC)