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Title: Which Process To Go Through First, Bit-Depth Converter or Re-sample kHz
Post by: MJ on April 04, 2009, 01:09:20 PM

Please bear with me.  This might be a newbie question but I could not find an answer to this. 

When you have to dither 21bit/96 kHz recording into 16bit / 44 KHz one, which process would
you usually go through first, re sampling kHz (96 to 44 kHz) or converting the bit-depth (21 to 16bit)?
and why.  Maybe there would not be much of difference but I just want to know what others do.

Sincerely,
Tama

Title: Re: Which Process To Go Through First, Bit-Depth Converter or Re-sample kHz
Post by: dennisrtyler on April 04, 2009, 01:17:42 PM

resample>dither

Title: Re: Which Process To Go Through First, Bit-Depth Converter or Re-sample kHz
Post by: audBall on April 04, 2009, 01:26:10 PM

I just recently made the switch to 24bit recording and had to search for this answer as well.  What I gathered is that you want to do all your editing in your highest resolution.  Once everything has been done (including resampling to 44.1k), you then can dither down to 16bit. 

Title: Re: Which Process To Go Through First, Bit-Depth Converter or Re-sample kHz
Post by: MJ on April 04, 2009, 01:38:39 PM

Thank you very much ;D ;D ;D  Now I got an answer!!!!!!