Re: [LAU] Tracking at 44.1 vs. 48k vs 96k?

From: Len Ovens <len@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Feb 07 2013 - 16:19:12 EET

On Thu, February 7, 2013 2:17 am, James Stone wrote:
> Are there any advantages to using 96k (or 48k?) if the final target is
> 44.1k/16bit? I am thinking that tracking at 44.1k / 24 bit should be
> more than sufficient for most (non-pro) purposes?
>
> I read somewhere about higher bitrate being important for headroom for
> audio processing plugins, but does samplerate also have an effect on
> this?

48k seems to be the standard the ADCs are built for. The non-pro audio
cards (AC97 and HDA) are designed around 48k. In fact AC97 codecs sample
at 48K and resample down to 44.1k sometimes badly (SB Live!). Go back a
month in this list a month or so for more reasons why 44.1k is less than
good for recording.

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