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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #15 on: June 03, 2018, 11:33:37 AM »
96/24 Bit and also 192/24 on a new recorder. It also has the sound option "DSD Format with 2.8 MHz" which might or might not be to any use in the future(?)
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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #16 on: June 03, 2018, 12:13:30 PM »
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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2018, 12:35:38 PM »
24/48 for the recording, mastering and archiving, dithered down to 16/44.1 for flac filesets for listening purposes. Of course I always keep the edited 24bit files along with the cue files so I could track them out in 24 later.
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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2018, 12:57:32 PM »
I guess I'll be the odd man out and say I only do 16/44 for 95% of what I record these days.




I record in 24bit to save my bacon when the levels get too hot, and I'm not watching..


I output 16/44.1 .flac when I'm finished post-processing, 100% of the time.




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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #19 on: June 03, 2018, 01:04:01 PM »
Seems like most use 24/48. I'll likely go to 48 khz instead of 96khz, as I haven't heard any argument against.

I think I'll stay with Audacity's 32 bit depth for post. From the manual:

"Audacity uses "float" format for 32-bit recording instead of fixed integer format as normalized floating point values are quicker and easier to process on computers than fixed integer values and allow greater dynamic range to be retained even after editing. This is because intermediate signals during audio processing can have very variable values. If they all get truncated to a fixed integer format, you can't boost them back up to full scale without losing resolution (i.e. without the data becoming less representative of the original than it was before). With floating point, rounding errors during intermediate processing are negligible.
The (theoretically audible) advantage of this is that 32-bit floating point format retains the original noise floor, and does not add noise. For example, with fixed integer data, applying a compressor effect to lower the peaks by 9 dB and separately amplifying back up would cost 9 dB (or more than 2 bits) of signal to noise ratio (SNR). If done with floating point data, the SNR of the peaks remains as good as before (except that the quiet passages are 9 dB louder and so 9 dB noisier due to the noise they had in the first place).
In many cases you will be exporting to a 16-bit format (for example if you are burning to a standard audio CD, that format is by definition 16-bit 44100 Hz). The advantage of using 32-bit float to work with holds even if you have to export to a 16-bit format. Using Dither on the Quality tab of Audacity Preferences will improve the sound quality of the exported file so there are only minimal (probably non-audible) effects of downsampling from 32-bit to 16-bit."

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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #20 on: June 03, 2018, 01:18:03 PM »
Seems like most use 24/48. I'll likely go to 48 khz instead of 96khz, as I haven't heard any argument against.

I think I'll stay with Audacity's 32 bit depth for post. From the manual:

"Audacity uses "float" format for 32-bit recording instead of fixed integer format as normalized floating point values are quicker and easier to process on computers than fixed integer values and allow greater dynamic range to be retained even after editing. This is because intermediate signals during audio processing can have very variable values. If they all get truncated to a fixed integer format, you can't boost them back up to full scale without losing resolution (i.e. without the data becoming less representative of the original than it was before). With floating point, rounding errors during intermediate processing are negligible.
The (theoretically audible) advantage of this is that 32-bit floating point format retains the original noise floor, and does not add noise. For example, with fixed integer data, applying a compressor effect to lower the peaks by 9 dB and separately amplifying back up would cost 9 dB (or more than 2 bits) of signal to noise ratio (SNR). If done with floating point data, the SNR of the peaks remains as good as before (except that the quiet passages are 9 dB louder and so 9 dB noisier due to the noise they had in the first place).
In many cases you will be exporting to a 16-bit format (for example if you are burning to a standard audio CD, that format is by definition 16-bit 44100 Hz). The advantage of using 32-bit float to work with holds even if you have to export to a 16-bit format. Using Dither on the Quality tab of Audacity Preferences will improve the sound quality of the exported file so there are only minimal (probably non-audible) effects of downsampling from 32-bit to 16-bit."

Note the use of 'theoretically' and 'probably'.



Stick with Audacity 2.1.0 if you have to use the "Change Speed" tool.  Newer versions are broken, truncating error.  I have not examined V2.2.2, maybe someone can report on it.  V2.1.0 works perfectly, and is OK enough for me.






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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #21 on: June 03, 2018, 05:12:03 PM »
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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #22 on: June 03, 2018, 08:15:39 PM »
24/48 for the recording, mastering and archiving, dithered down to 16/44.1 for flac filesets for listening purposes. Of course I always keep the edited 24bit files along with the cue files so I could track them out in 24 later.

same here

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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #23 on: June 03, 2018, 09:47:04 PM »
I use 24/48, and share those and 16/44.1 “mastered” versions.
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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #24 on: June 03, 2018, 10:16:41 PM »
24/48 for the recording, mastering and archiving, dithered down to 16/44.1 for flac filesets for listening purposes. Of course I always keep the edited 24bit files along with the cue files so I could track them out in 24 later.

same here

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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #25 on: June 03, 2018, 11:53:57 PM »
16/44.1 usually. Occasionally 24/48. I almost never use 96 or higher even in my studio work (only really orchestral stuff/entirely acoustic music) so I sure as hell ain’t using it to record two track tapes of PA mixes from the back of a room.

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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #26 on: June 04, 2018, 03:21:53 AM »
I guess I'll be the odd man out and say I only do 16/44 for 95% of what I record these days.




I record in 24bit to save my bacon when the levels get too hot, and I'm not watching..


I output 16/44.1 .flac when I'm finished post-processing, 100% of the time.

This is something I've wondered about. What about the extra 8 bits allows for more work in post without losing as much quality?
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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #27 on: June 04, 2018, 06:48:43 AM »
This is something I've wondered about. What about the extra 8 bits allows for more work in post without losing as much quality?

A major advantage, as I understand it, is that the extra bits greatly reduce the noise introduced from quantization error during analog to digital conversion (each extra bit approximately halves the noise).  So even if the recording peaks considerably below full-scale, you can amplify it without making the quantization noise audible...

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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #28 on: June 04, 2018, 08:48:33 AM »
24/192 - storage space isn't an issue.

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Re: What sample rate are you using?
« Reply #29 on: June 04, 2018, 12:52:08 PM »
This is something I've wondered about. What about the extra 8 bits allows for more work in post without losing as much quality?

A major advantage, as I understand it, is that the extra bits greatly reduce the noise introduced from quantization error during analog to digital conversion (each extra bit approximately halves the noise).  So even if the recording peaks considerably below full-scale, you can amplify it without making the quantization noise audible...

Precisely, thanks aaronji
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