The Depths Of My Bits And The Rates Of My Samples...

Once I got past this dude’s beard and the ImageLine logo that they splashed on someone else’s video (the original isn’t embeddable), I quickly realized that this is the single best explanation of bit depth, sample rate, and dither that anyone has bothered to make.

I’ve always thought that 48kHz (which puts the Nyquist frequency above 100% of the human race’s hearing ability) and 24 bits (which puts the noise floor below that of most any instrument, recording method, and reproduction method) were perfectly acceptable values. This video pretty much says that’s fine, although not for the reasons I thought.

Anyhow, if you’re a musician that records digital audio, you owe it to yourself to spend a half hour watching this.