Its really hard to find a professional I/O these days that supports lower sample and bit rates such as a 8kHz and 8bit, is it pretty much a given that I must have this support at least for playback because I tend to work with low quality audio in my field of work.

If you have the capability to record at higher sampling rates than 44.1 should you.

say for instance 44, 48, 96khz etc. just a quick thought.

thanx

I know that 24 bit makes a big difference compared to 16 bit, but someone just gave me their opinion on sample rates. They said that there isn't much of a difference between 44.1 and 96, and since 96 takes up more than twice the space on my CPU that I should just record at 44.1. Also, there has been some talk about loosing quality when converting from 96 or 88.2 down to 44.1.

I'm working on 24/96 project and I have to import some 24/44.1 and 16/44.1 samples inside, for further eff./mixing. I guess it won't be a problem to do (convert all on 24/96) using audio editor, but I'm curious/suspicious about the side effects of that up/down SRC and bit rate, since final destination of project would be 16/44.1. All things inside the box.

Well I just upgraded to the RME Fireface 800 from my crappy Edirol FA301.

Firstly anybody searching, I cannot recommend the Fireface highly enough. The difference, mainly noticeable in the higher frequencies, and the clarity of what I can hear in old mixes that I never could before, is simply stunning.

I finally feel I am moving towards a semi-professional level.

So a few weeks ago, i was recording a band...and i had Digital Performer set to record at 48K and get its clock from the AES EBU input...

but the AES EBU device sending the clock was accidentally set to 44.1

so the resulting files were labeled as 48K in their meta data...but were actually recorded at 44.1

hey, when recording with Pro Tools at 96K and bouncing the mix to the harddrive (a Wav file), it doesn't play back, but when i record at 48K and bounce it to disk into a wav file, it plays fine. i'm sort of new at this, so is there anything i'm missing

thanks.

I'm trying to do a video project AND a CD.
The DV link brings the audio from the video in at 48K.

I used the Wavelab converter to change the sample rate to 44.1K
My ears don't detect any audible difference.

However, I need answers to these questions.

Hi all I dont want to start a debate but I gotta know.

Say you want your final products to be both 16/44.1 CD AND 24/96 DVD-Audio

What sample rate do you record at?

I would think 24/88.2

For the nice math down to 44.1 and I can upsample to 96k at the for the DVD version.

If I'm recording an album in 24 bit will there be a big enough difference between 48KHz and 96KHz, after src, dithering, and the Mastering Engineer finishes it up to make it worth doing 96KHz intially?