96 kh on 788

[oleg]

http://www.sounddevices.com/download/788t-firmware.htm
really makes nagra overpriced :-)

[boojum]

Oleg, tell the Nagra VI owners.   ;o)

I am curious, if 44.1 kHz covers all sound reproduceable on a CD and if mics cannot record above 20kHz, why would anyone need such high sampling rates to record silence?  What am I missing??

[digifish_music]

Oleg, tell the Nagra VI owners.   ;o)

I am curious, if 44.1 kHz covers all sound reproduceable on a CD and if mics cannot record above 20kHz, why would anyone need such high sampling rates to record silence?  What am I missing??

You are not missing much, but to correct one thing, many mics can record above 20 kHz (no problem).

Generally, marketing overshot human perception, that's all...reality seems to be dragging it back (slowly), but I suppose if the other guy has 96 kHz, you need it too

More seriously, that the 788 recorder can now capture ultrasonics may make it more desirable for scientific research & related ultrasonic-nature-recording purposes.

I wonder why professional photographers never worried if their digital cameras are capturing UV information?

digifish

[oleg]

you use high sampling when capturing sfx , what give you allot of room changing the speed without losing to much information ( explosions , punches , shooting ,etc )
of course there is nice sentence i like
as high as you start  as high as fall :-)
nagra - only for these who still living in the past , allot of money  for name
one of firms i really dislike as being monopole for years  was greedy enough still our money with ridiculous prices
the same is rycote  and few others

[notlance]

Sound Devices lists some restrictions when recording above 48k:

- Real time recording to DVDRAM is not supported.
- Sound Devices strongly recommends using high speed UDMA CompactFlash cards.
- Input Limiters are disabled.
- Limits recording to only two storage media at a time.
- Track counts are restricted to 8 tracks.

Since I never record above 48k it makes no difference to me, but thought y'all might want to know.