AES Recommended Practice for Digital Audio Engineering – Synchronization of digital audio equipment in studio operations.

Project scope: This document provides a recommended practice for manufacturers and users of digital audio equipment aimed at promoting economical and efficient methods for synchronizing interconnected digital audio equipment. The provisions make use of the two-channel digital audio interface standard for professional use, AES3. It is expected that the recommendations will be adopted for synchronizing all other digital audio interfaces. The document addresses two groups of parameters. The first concerns the performance requirements for the successful interchange of digital audio data between equipment (5). The second concerns the performance requirements for the regeneration of clocks used for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog, conversion (6).
Assigned to: SC-02-02, Status: Due for reaffirmation in 2025
Intent: Review, Initiated: 2020, Target: 2025
Current goal: Revision, Goal date: Revision