Re: [microsound] High sampling rates/Bit depths

["jan.l" <jan.l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have the hardware to work with 192/24 and did so for a while but could
hear no difference. Since the sample-rate-conversion from 192 (or 176)
to lower rates (release formats) was audible I now prefer to work
directly with the lower rate. 

There is no scientific research that shows humans to hear anything above
20khz so unless Nyquist has been broken all the 96/192 talk is just
marketing. Manufacturers and dealers want to sell you new stuff.

If you want to avoid "sounding digital" its not the sample-rate. It's
dithering and levels. Make sure the algorithms in the software you use
dithers in all the right places. 

Never slam levels or normalize anywhere near 0dBFS. I track with peaks
at -16dbFS, this give EQ etc. enough headroom. To avoid distorting the
DA-sections of most CD/DVD-players keep peaks in the final master below
-6dbFS or use a meter that can show you the interpolation peaks of
multisampling DA:s. Or simply use a competent mastering engineer.

I started with electroacoustic music in the early 80s using big
multi-track analog recorders and loved that big effortless sound. At
last I'm now getting that kind of quality out of digital but I had to
learn far more than I should to get there. I'm mostly working with 48/24
(using DVD as release-media), at first using DTS-surround but I am
currently back-to-stereo and use PCM (uncompressed) 48khz/24-bit.

I like DVD, you can add video, stills, texts. And there is a simple
scripting language so you can write code that is executed by any
consumer DVD-player. The downside of DVD is that some countries, like
the US, use a local/different video format.

/Jan Larsson



> Hello all,
> 
> I've been looking into the pros and cons of working with audio at 24 
> bit/96 khz/192 khz etc...
> 
> There seems to be a lot of mixed opinions by recording engineers and 
> producers who are predominantly in favour but little talk by sound 
> artists or experimental electronic musicians.
> 
> Does anyone work with their audio at these kinds of rates/depths?  Is 
> there a dramatic difference?  Has anyone utilized "super audio" or
"dvd 
> audio" as a platform for their work?  I'd be extremely interested to 
> hear some opinions on the matter.
> 
> Best wishes all,
> 
> Michael. 
>      
> 
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