Re: [LAU] Record at 44.1 or at 48 kHz?

Nobody agrees on the 48/44 one thing - I personally always record as high as
I can. Everybody pretty much agrees on using 24 bit (as opposed to 16)

I will say there's no point in upsampling from 44.1 to 48 and then back down
again, you can only lose data. If everything you had was 44.1k loops then
i'd definitely stick in 44.1 on ardour.

I make my loops at 48.

there I've said my piece. :)

- A

----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Roetman" <victory747@email-addr-hidden>
To: <linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:26 AM
Subject: [LAU] Record at 44.1 or at 48 kHz?

>I know this is a subjective topic, but I've done a bit of reading on the
> web and searching in the archives, and it's not easy to get anything
> concrete. I understand that recording at high sampling frequencies such
> as 96kHz may be beneficial, especially with regard to digital filtering
> artifacts, but for someone like me it's definitely overkill. I also
> understand that recording with 24 bit samples has definite merit and
> should probably be done irrespective of the sample rate.
>
> The question I have is whether I should be recording 24 bit audio at
> 44.1 kHz or at 48 kHz if the end result will be Compact Disk audio. It
> seems that some pro-audio equipment tends to prefer 48 kHz, and many
> people do their recording at 48 kHz. The heart of the question is this:
> Will the slight slight increase in quality of recording and mixing at 48
> kHz outweigh the slight reduction in quality from re-sampling 48 kHz to
> 44.1 kHz?
>
> How about if the project was also using loops recorded at 44.1 kHz? If
> the Ardour project is at 48 kHz, the loops would need to be up-sampled,
> and then the whole thing down-sampled again to 44.1 on export. Would
> that up-down sampling offset any benefit of using 48 kHz in the first
> place?
>
> vic
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