Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: JACK samplerate stuck at 48000

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Wed Jun 21 2006 - 04:05:43 EEST

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 02:58 +0200, Carlo Capocasa wrote:
> > You can do it already, just run JACK with a plughw device rather than
> > hw.
>
> Cool!
>

Maybe not so cool - the ALSA sample rate converter is definitely not
high quality. It's designed to be fast. Good for desktop stuff but not
so good for pro audio.

> >
> > But, why do you want this? You'll get better results running at a
> > hardware supported sample rate then resampling at the end.
>
> I have sources that were recorded at 48kHz. I figured that if I
> downsampled before mastering the processing would possibly obscure the
> conversion noise for the finished product (CD), at the cost of having
> conversion noise during monitoring.

You have a soundcard that can't do 48KHz in hardware? That's unusual.

Lee
Received on Wed Jun 21 04:15:21 2006

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