On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 10:37 +0530, ISh wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I am editing a radio programme on ardour and the whole project has to be > delivered on DAT (Tape)format to the Radio station. As I am using a lot > of music made by myself and other friends the music and a lot of 'field > recordings ' that are on cd format(16 bit, 44Khz Audio). I am using > 'Soundblaster Creative Audigy ZS'. Now there are a few issues/points > that were coming up regarding resampling, recoring on DAT etc. > > 1. Now a lot of field recordings and Music in on Cd (16bit ,44Khz) > format. And I am working with 48Khz ,16bit on the jackd(deamon) and on > ardour. Now if I oversample/ ?resample at a higher rate? in ardour by > importing it in the 'Auditions' region i.e. basically from 44Khz to > 48Khz. Will I loose out on quality. Is the Ardour re-sampler good enough > to handle this conversion. > > 2. Or, should I work with 16bit-44Khz setting (on jackd/Ardour) and > export the final mixed session once finished to 16bit-48Khz(DAT) . So I > can take the dump of the final session on DAT tapes. Will this way be > better than the point(1) above in which all the audio is individually > re-sampled at > > 3. I have a 'Tascam DA-P 1' DAT recorder on which I have to dump the > final edit. So how do I go about this. Should I play the audio in Ardour > only and the send it to the DAT recorder. Or should i play the exported > file in a player like Alsaplayer/ Audacity(which plays audio rec at > 48Khz ???) and then take the dump through SPDIF out into the DAT > recorder. Is this possible to do the above mentioned process(s) any > other way, which might be better. > > Basically Im dealing with a lot of audio at 44KHz which has to mixed > together and the final output will be on 48Khz(DAT Tape). What could be > the best way to deal with it so that there is no or very little loss in > quality. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Because it will affect sound quality, you'll want to resample as few times as possible. From the information you've given, I assume this means that you'll want to resample at the end of the mixing/mastering process. Given the quality of the converters in your sound card, I would definitely recommend that you use SPDIF to transfer your final mix to the DAT. Best, Greg
