Topic: 44.1 versus 48

[pfife]

Have others found this to be true as well?  that 44.1 sounds better than resampling 48 to 44.1?

It depends on what you use to resample the recording.  I've stopped using SoundForge because it
absolutely sucks the life out of a recording. 

I solely use SoundForge 6.0, and have never experienced this.  What version do (or did) you use?

To me they sound the same.  I don't hear a difference in the quality between 44.1 and 48, but I record in 48 for potential mediums in the future.

[rodeen]

I was using SF v5.  As an experiment I took one song and rolled the bass off and resampled
from 48khz to 44.1khz.  I did this with SF 5, Audacity, Adobe Audition and GoldWave. 
To my ears Audition sounded the best, SF 5 the worst.  I was suprised because I really didn't
expect to be able to hear anything.  I've done this a few times with different recordings with
the same results.  Might just be my personal preference.  Give it a try, I'd be interested in your
opinion.

[wbrisette]

To me they sound the same.  I don't hear a difference in the quality between 44.1 and 48, but I record in 48 for potential mediums in the future.

Sound quality wise, there really is a negligable difference between 44.1 and 48K. In fact even jumping to 96K doesn't provide you much better sound quality (it's very slight). Where you gain the most "bang for your buck" is the jump from 16 bits to 24 bits. I really, really wish I had saved an email from the Logic list that the Emagic engineers posted a few years back. A couple of their DSP guys explained in detail why this was (had something to do with Nyquist Theorem).

Their take on it was forget about higher sampling rates and focus on higher bit rates. They felt the disk space required for higher sampling rates was a waste wereas the disk space required for higher bit rates was worth every MB.

Wayne

[MattD]

Comparatively speaking, the greater bit depth will help a recording more than an increased sample rate. However, at a given bit depth, the higher sample rate will sound more accurate. Whether or not 24/96 is worth 2x the space of 24/48 is probably up to the individual and how much drive space they have available for a show.

[BobW]

I archive at 24/highest rate I can muster, and burn CDs to listen to, trade, and give to performers.

Downsampling/word-length shortening isn't that big a drag, not as much as tracking.
Tracking is a pain.
Anybody who's got any tracking suggestions, please pass them on.

[F.O.Bean]

cd wave for tracking, nuf said, its the redbook standard