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- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Subject: Re: Anti-aliasing on the recording end?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.055001.26943@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:50:01 GMT
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- In article <shetline-230193113049@128.89.19.90> shetline@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline) writes:
- >
- >First let's make sure we distinguish between 'oversampling' and running at
- >higher sampling rates. Oversampling is a playback method that generates
- >artificially interpolated samples between the data points that are already
- >given. If you record at a higher sampling rate, however, you've got more
- >real data.
-
- Two things: Most authorities (translation: Pohlman, et al.) refer to the
- process of running the clock higher on record as oversampling, mainly
- because the idea of doing so is similar to the "real" oversampling on
- playback, the purpose of both being to reduce the need for ring-prone
- brick wall filters, etc.
-
- >The advantage of recording with a higher sampling rate is that you don't
- >need steep analog input filters. But this does mean that there can be
- >frequencies greater than 22.05 emmbedded within the data stream. So you
- >can't just throw away the extra samples. The data has to be processed to
- >remove the higher frequencies.
-
- Well, yes, but the process of returning the signal to its original sampling
- rate is usually accomplished thru dexcimation (consisting of two parts
- usually: digital filtering and sampling rate decrease (undersampling).
- There are many ways to do the digital LPF which I won't get into. I guess
- I didn't make myself quite clear before when I said "it gets decimated and
- discarded," in as much as I meant that the process of decimation involves
- reducing the high-frequency content that the low order analog filter left
- behind.
-
- There are of course other ways to do this now...there's delta-sigma (1 bit)
- and other noise shaping techniques that can do it, and some people have gone
- back to higher-order analog filters that are very well-made (and very
- expensive) as an alternative to oversampling.
-
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