2. Standard AES42
In 2001, AES published a new standard under the number AES42. It is entitled Digital Microphone Interface and is based on the AES3 standard, which it complements in the upward direction. It enables the equipment receiving the AES3 stream from the digital microphone to send commands and power back to the microphone. Although this standard refers to a microphone as the source of the AES3 stream, it can also be applied to other equipment that provides an AES3 source, but needs to be powered from the other end of the cable and receive commands (for example, to modify its configuration).
2.1 Objectives
The typical use of this standard is that of a digital microphone connected to a mixing console. The microphone acts as the AES3 source, and the console as the AES3...
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Standard AES42
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General works
- WATKINSON (J.) - The Art of Digital Audio. - Focal Press (1991).
- BALLOU (G.M.) (éd.) - Handbook of Sound Engineers : The New Audio Cyclopedia. - Butterworth-Heinemann (1998).
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