Re: Recording at high-resolution, dithering to Red Book Standards

Richard,
One of the nice things about 24-bit recording is the freedom to be more conservative with recording levels while still maintaing better resolution than 16-bit's full potential (thereby providing greater headroom). I suppose when you combine that with normalization at the 24-bit level before downconverting to 16-bit, there would indeed an advantage... and since you ARE using digital EQ, sticking with 24-bit is a good idea.

Most of my recording is still done at 16-bit, and I run my levels hot enough that they reach 0dBFS for a few inaudible samples here and there. Obviously, normalizing is not an issue in my case, and with only 16 bits to work with, I don't usually mess around with EQ. Since it's a hobby for me, I can live with less than perfect spectral balance.

-Anthony

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Topic - Recording at high-resolution, dithering to Red Book Standards - Marantzguy 15:43:51 05/11/06 (13)

Asynchronous Sample Rate Conversion..... - Todd Krieger 21:31:34 05/12/06 (6)

While all rate conversions are lossy... - real_jj 12:51:16 05/25/06 (0)

No thats not an issue with Synchronous Rate Conversion - jcox 20:35:15 05/15/06 (3)

Re: No thats not an issue with Synchronous Rate Conversion - Todd Krieger 01:27:01 05/16/06 (0)

You are aware of "fast convolution" aren't you? - real_jj 12:54:26 05/25/06 (0)

I haven't been inside any DAW code so I can't say what's used - jcox 10:23:41 05/16/06 (0)

Yes, that's certainly true, but it may not be a significant issue... - Bersani 20:51:10 05/13/06 (0)

Re: Recording at high-resolution, dithering to Red Book Standards - Inmate51 07:53:54 05/12/06 (0)

Re: Recording at high-resolution, dithering to Red Book Standards - Bersani 22:51:14 05/11/06 (4)

Re: Recording at high-resolution, dithering to Red Book Standards - Marantzguy 10:48:22 05/12/06 (3)

Re: Recording at high-resolution, dithering to Red Book Standards - Inmate51 15:09:04 05/16/06 (0)

Re: Recording at high-resolution, dithering to Red Book Standards - b.l.zeebub 07:58:03 05/14/06 (0)

Re: Recording at high-resolution, dithering to Red Book Standards - Bersani 21:00:02 05/12/06 (0)

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Re: Recording at high-resolution, dithering to Red Book Standards - Bersani 21:00:02 05/12/06 (0)

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