Talk:Digital recording

External link

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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)

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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)

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.wiki.x.io/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)

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)