Why does even digital audio deteriorate?
It is not limited to DTM and DAW, I think if you are a musician you may have noticed the deterioration in sound quality.
For example, change the shield to a higher one or allow it to be bypassed entirely when the effector is not in use.
When it comes to old stories, record without ping-pong as much as possible.
I don’t think the deterioration in sound quality bothers me, but I’m obviously not afraid of losing sound, so I’m careful.
But, it is simply an analog of the story in, don’t use your mind as I don’t say anything about digital audio.
Why?
That’s because I couldn’t fully understand the concept of “digital data degradation”.
When it comes to guitars, it’s easy to see that upgrading the various effectors and protectors between the guitar and the amp, and the protector that goes to the amp’s audio I / O “improves the sound.”
It is an analog signal.
But I couldn’t quite understand the history of changing the Firewire cable connecting the audio I / O to the PC to improve the sound quality.
It does not matter if it is via the Internet or copying from a medium, but when you think about it normally and transfer data digitally, there is no deterioration.
To be precise, transmission loss always occurs, so the signal itself deteriorates, but when the data of the transfer result is considered as the center, the picture is that the transfer retries increase rather than deteriorate, and on the user side. From the point of view, I don’t think it can be said that the transfer time has increased and the data has deteriorated.
If the transmission loss is very large, the file itself may be corrupted, and in the case of data to be processed in real time, the transfer may not be on time and the processing may result in an error, but it is transfers normally. In that case, I thought it was digital data that the data should be the same before and after the transfer, no matter how much transmission loss occurred or how long it would take …
(This is just my own expectation. I don’t know if it fits).
Also, in terms of sound, there are two patterns: deterioration of the analog sound quality, which is literally “deterioration” that produces sloppy sound like “thinning sound”, and noise mixed in the transmission path. I think that in the case of a digital data error, it is not a level that says “the sound is bad”, but it becomes a choppy sound or a loud sound that can only be called noise.
