On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 10:23 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Monday 12 September 2005 08:55 am, Greg Wilder wrote: > > Believe it or not, many of the ultra-high end mastering > > studios bounce their final product to 1/2 inch two-track analog tape so > > they can recapture it a final time at 44.1. > > A similar approach might be to do a D to A and then an A to D within the > computer (e.g., soundcard output to soundcard input). Yes, but you'd really have to have amazing cards to hear a real benefit. Bouncing a final mix to 1/2 inch tape before the final print allows you to do the 44.1 conversion from a high quality analog source. But, it assumes that the source recordings and processing was done at an extremely high level - i.e. DSD. And unfortunately, we don't yet have any open-source tools for manipulating DSD. I know of a few mastering houses that would *kill* to be using GNU/Linux if the tools were available. Greg www.steeprockmedia.com
