Thanks a lot Steve your advice is very helpful :) ISh Steve Harris wrote: >On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:37:48 +0530, ISh wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > >Will they definatly only accept 48k DAT? I was under the impression that >DATs are now often 44.1k as well. OTOH digital radio (in the UK at >least) is 48k, so it seems reasonable. > >The Ardour resmapler (SRC) is pretty good as long as you select a decent >sinc interpolation. You will loose qlauilty, but I doubt if you will hear >the difference. > > > >>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 >> >> > >Resampling can be quite time consuming, so forthat reason you might want >to convert at the end, as its easier to batch process it, and you may end >up converting less material. It wont make much difference to the quality. > > > >>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. >> >> > >The choice is between sending it over SPDIF at 48k (involving a resampling >stage), or over analogue (hopefully balanced) I guess? It depends on your >feelings about analogue v's digital noise, personally I would go with >SPDIF. The app that you use to send the audio out over shouldn't make any >difference, but make sure your buffers are large. > > > >>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. >> >> > >I would say that a high quality sinc resampler will be the best quality. >You shouldn't be able to distinguish th resampled audio from the original, >but you sould experiemnt, of course. > >- Steve > >
