Just in case there are any other brain dead morons like myself who also tape, I'll pass along this newb lesson and also ask a few questions.
I recorded my first show in 48kHz. I normalized it, cut it up and exported to seperate wavs using Sound Forge 8.0. I then burned it to a CD. I have a 30 minute ride to work and I'm listening to what I recorded and going insane because there is some noise in my recording. I could only pick it up on the highs, not the lows, but it's bad. At times it sounds just like when you have your volume way up on a speaker that can't handle it and you get that vibration or distorion. At other times it sounds like this hiss. Almost like the drummer is hitting a cymbal throughout the entire recording.
I'm having a major panic attack because this is also the first show I've used my hyper caps on and I'm worried I bought a bum pair. Finally, it occurs to me that I never noticed how Sound Forge handled the file being that it was recorded at 48kHz. I get home and check out the properties of the wavs it created and sure enough they are 48kHz. I didn't realize that CDs could be burned with wavs recorded in 48kHz, but they can and my software did it no problem. Not only did it burn but the discs (or coasters now) are playable and even listenable but has something that is obviously off to your ear.
I re-did the show in 44.1kHz and all is good now. The mics are just fine...I'm the one who is stupid.
My questions:
When dealing with 48kHz.
1. Should I normalize first and then resample to 44.1kHz or should I resample to 44.1kHz first and then normalize?
2. I have the choice to apply anti-alias filtering when resampling. Do I apply it or not?
3. Is there any other common editing technique that is important to do before or after resampling?
Thanks.