Re: [microsound] High sampling rates/Bit depths

[Owen Green <o.t.green@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jan.l wrote:

> 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.

Full ACK; it should be noted that if the material gets squashed and 
slammed up to ~0dBfs, a la many current commerical recordings, then 
it'll sound equally cruddy whether 24 or 16 bits were used.

I'm guessing most of you will have read them, but Bob Katz's 'Mastering 
Audio' provides an excellent discussion of the relative technical merits 
of word lentghs and sample rates, and Barry Truax's 'Acoustic 
Communication' has some discussion of the (high level) perceptual 
consequences of reducing the dynamic range of material.

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