On Mon, 12 Sep, 2005 at 07:59AM -0400, Greg Wilder spake thus: > On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 18:54 -0400, Joseph Dell'Orfano wrote: > > After a discussion > > with a friend, I?m not so sure anymore. He is recording his album at > > 44.1 kHz, arguing that this will avoid downsampling when finally > > pressing a CD. So, are there any opinions about this? > > The quality of the dithering algorithms can make very a noticeable > difference in your final product if you have to down-sample - but that > doesn't necessarily mean that you're relegated to life at 44.1. > > IMO, the best solution is to work at 88.2khz whenever possible. This > way, you can down-sample to CD quality without quantization errors. I'm > no DSP guru - but as I understand it, sampling at a multiple of 44.1 > (88.2, 176.4, etc.) is the cleanest way to go outside of DSD. > > FWIW - I haven't heard a software dither (with quantization) that I > thought was decent - FOSS or otherwise. The best down-sampling I ever > heard came out of a $3,500 Apogee box. Wow. How hard can this be? Surely it's just like image scaling, but without that complicated other dimension. If anyone want's to put me right... > Hope this helps, > Greg > > www.steeprockmedia.com > > > > > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
