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Sampling rate is a very complex thing to understand. Sampling rate does not have a specific volume, but it mainly depends on what was recorded or how it was recorded. Also what sampling rate was used may even be involved.

A digital recording is governed by two things, the sample rate and the bit depth.

A sound wave is determined by two things also, the frequency of the signal and it's amplitude (How loud it is at that instant per wave). To convert from a sound wave to a digital format we have to examine the current frequency and amplitude and convert these analogue values to digital ones.

The rate at which we do this is called the sample rate.

At the same instant we sample the volume which is stored in a value called the bit depth. The bit depth relates to a binary value of which for instance 16 bit represents a value in decimal from 0 - 32765. Obviously the bigger the bit depth the larger the value number can be stored & therefore the higher resolution of the amplitude waveform is available.

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