Sampling frequency

Okay kiddo, so imagine you have a really cool drum set and you love playing it. Now, when you hit the drum, it makes a sound, right? And that sound can be loud, soft, high-pitched, or low-pitched.

But let's say that you want to record the sound of your drum set using a microphone and save it on your computer. In order to do that, you need to use something called a sampling frequency.

Sampling frequency is like taking a picture of the sound your drum makes many times a second. The more pictures you take, the more accurate the recording will be.

So, when you hit the drum once, the microphone takes a picture of that sound many times every second (like, really fast - up to thousands or even millions of times per second!). Then, all of those pictures are saved on your computer as a bunch of numbers, which represent the sound waves.

When you play back the recording of your drum set, your computer reads those numbers and turns them back into sound waves, and you can hear the recording play back the same sounds that you made on the drums.

So, the higher the sampling frequency (or how many pictures are taken per second), the more accurate the recording will be, and the better it will sound when you play it back.