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Jun 4 2014, 09:49 AM
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The majority of pro end mastering studios will ask you to deliver your project as 24 bit. I'd also add that there is no real advantage in recording and mixing at a SR above 96kHz and lots of disadvantages. We actually prefer projects to be 24/44.1 and 24/48. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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But if you've got the gear to support, give it a go and see how it works for your process |
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Jun 5 2014, 10:48 AM
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If you are doing post than generally use a SR of 48, if it's for music than 44.1. If you want to 2x upsample to 96 or 88.2 it's ok as Todd says but there is little if any benefit to upsample to 4x or higher and some definite issues. A lot of people do the SR at 192 etc thinking that the larger number must be better, it isn't.
Technically Dan Lavry wrote a nice AES paper on SR etc someyears ago which discussed in a fair amount of technical detail why there is no advantage in 4x upsampling for recording and mixing but a lot of disadvantages. If anyone wants to see it I'll try and dig it out and link it. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jun 5 2014, 11:59 AM
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is fire-wire better than usb ?. When I am going to upgrade my interface ,I was wanting to find something with as little latency as possible.
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Jun 5 2014, 12:29 PM
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Becca - take a look at the set up options in Ableton (I don't use it so can't tell you precisely where it is - sorry). It should allow you to set your preferred bt depth and sample rate/SR. Many daws come with it set at 32 float and 44.1. 32 float is ok but 24 fixed is technically better and is what would be used if you sent your project out to master. For the SR set it to 44.1 or 48 if it isn't already.
Then as Mertay says the only thing you need to pay attention to is when you render down to a lower bit rate to produce an audio CD. Red book standard is 44.1 and 16 bit. The reduction from 24 to 16 often requires a process called dithering and you can either do this in some limiters or by inserting a dither plug in as the final item in the plug in chain. You should generally only ever dither once. jst - FW is better than USB generally for audio but FW audio devices tend to be at the higher end of the prosumer market so usually cost quite a bit more than a USB 2 device. Also, there are not that many computers now that have a FW connection, most only come with USB and/or thunderbolt (if its a MAC) . If your comp does have a FW connector you need to make sure that uses a Texas chipset - there are other cheaper chipsets and some don't always play nice with audio streaming; Texas is about the only one which audio interface FW manufacturers test and are happy with. There are a few other bonuses in that a FW device can be daisy chained properly to increase inputs etc. The difference between FW and USB is more to do with band width (how many channels can be used at the same time) and how audio is transferred and received as data packets (whether its asynchronous, isosynchronous etc). With latency most (probably all) USB 2 audio devices should be able to be configured for very low latency. Some people think that USB3 audio devices will give you lower latency than a USB 2 device but that isn't true - USB 3 will provide more band width but doesn't improve latency. This post has been edited by tonymiro: Jun 5 2014, 12:30 PM -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jun 5 2014, 03:16 PM
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Just a suggestion for you Becca...
When you record and mix try to keep individual track lanes down so that they peak at around -12dBFS and the stereo main/2 bus at about -6dBFS. Only bring up the level when you 'master' the track. This suggestion may contradict what your DAW's manual says but you'll be much less likely to clip and will have a better digital gainstage. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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