Re: Question about Compression into DAWs

Paul wrote:

Same difference. The higher Nyquist gives you
a wider bandwidth, and the alias frequencies are also
higher....

True, if you let them through, but that's a no-no in converter
design. There ARE no alias frequencies, at least not in the
converters that I use, and I use some pretty cheap converters.

This is a design issue that has been dealt with and is no longer
a potential problem. Higher sample rate, in practice, today, only
gives wider bandwidth. While it has been shown that there's
sound above 20 kHz and that it can be captured by a microphone,
(or, in the case of Scott's example, by a phono cartridge) there
are few speakers that can reproduce it and few ears that can
appreciate it.

So 96 kHz sample rate is not yet a "requirement" for contemporary
recording, and assuming you're not using a ten year old 96 kHz A/D
converter, won't make your recordings sound any better in the end.
It won't make them sound worse, (though many converters in the
ten year old time frame DID sound worse at 2x sample rates than at
standard, because of the components available to the designers at
the time) but you'll have bigger pieces to deal with that aren't necessary.



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