Audio Engineering

Recording Consoles 807

Reference

1. Brice, R., ‘Audio mixer design’, Electronics and Wireless World , July, 1990.

frequencies are actually above the half-sampling frequency limit and get folded back into

the pass-band, creating a rough quality to the sound and a sonic signature quite unlike

the analogue “ equivalent ” (see Figure F27.7 ). This effect may account for the imperfect

quality of many digital “ copies ” of classic analogue equipment.

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Figure F27.7 : Aliasing of harmonic structure in digital, nonlinear processing.