Comparison of analog and digital recording — This article compares the two ways in which sound is recorded and stored. Actual sound waves consist of continuous variations in air pressure. Representations of these signals can be recorded using either digital or analog techniques. An analog… … Wikipedia
Digital Audio Tape — can also refer to a compact cassette with digital storage: DCC or one of several digital reel to reel formats Digital Audio Tape A 90 minute DAT cart … Wikipedia
Digital audio — Digital music redirects here. For a kind of modern music composed by digital means, see electronic music. A sound wave, in gray, represented digitally, in red (after quantization and zero order hold). Digital audio is sound reproduction using… … Wikipedia
Digital cassettes — Digital audio cassette formats introduced to the professional audio and consumer markets: Digital Audio Tape (or DAT) is the most well known, and had some success as an audio storage format among professionals and prosumers before the prices of… … Wikipedia
Digital Compact Cassette — For other uses, see DCC (disambiguation). Digital Compact Cassette Media type Magnetic tape Encoding Precision Adaptive Sub band Coding (MPEG 1 Audio Layer I) … Wikipedia
digital sound recording — method of preserving sound in which audio signals are transformed into a series of pulses that correspond to patterns of binary digits (i.e., 0 s and 1 s) and are recorded as such on the surface of a magnetic tape or optical disc. A digital … Universalium
Digital audio workstation — A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic system designed solely or primarily for recording, editing and playing back digital audio. DAWs were originally tape less, microprocessor based systems such as the Synclavier and Fairlight CMI.… … Wikipedia
Digital Audio Stationary Head — The Digital Audio Stationary Head or DASH standard is a reel to reel, digital audio tape format introduced by Sony in early 1982 for high quality multitrack studio recording and mastering, as an alternative to analog recording methods. DASH is… … Wikipedia
DAT — [[t]dæ̱t[/t]] N UNCOUNT DAT is a type of magnetic tape used to make very high quality recordings of sound by recording it in digital form. DAT is an abbreviation for digital audio tape … English dictionary
Digital Audio Tape — DAT Kassette mit Hülle im Größenvergleich mit einer Micro Batterie (4,4 cm lang) Das Digital Audio Tape (DAT) ist ein digitales Audio Magnetband (Tonband) für entsprechende Audiorekorder. Das Aufzeichnungsformat und die Tonqualität entsprechen im … Deutsch Wikipedia
DAT — n. [acronym, from Digital AudioTape.] digital audiotape, a digitally encoded tape recording of sound; in contrast to the usual analog audio tape. [acronym] [WordNet 1.5] || … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English