Some clients want “red book specs” for dry recordings (just your voice; no music or sound effects). That threw me the first time I saw it; I soon found out I’d been recording at “red book specs” all along. What is it? Just the standard for CD quality audio files: 2 channel, 44k, 16 bit.

The Internet is full of resources for quick definitions among other things. When in doubt, I click over to Wikipedia, an ever-growing wiki site full of articles on everything. It’s community operated and created through online collaboration. Like everything we encounter on the Internet, wiki articles have to be evaluated, not taken as gospel; but I’ve found it to be a reliable resource for most searches I’ve run over there.

Wikipedia has this article on the Red Book audio standard. Short and sweet. If you don’t find it on Wiki, there’s always Google.