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In Reply to: Gonna try recording some LPs in 24/96 with my Toshiba notebook posted by HenryH on April 21, 2007 at 16:17:09:
There's a program called CD Wave Editor that has a built in recorder and makes it easier than any other software to split tracks quickly after recording an album or side. It was designed exactly for this purpose by a guy who was tired of using a full-blown editor for track splitting and the time it took. It's simple, doesn't take long at all to get the hang of and breeze through this job. I keep an older version here http://www.freefilehosting.net/download/MTg0Nzg4 which lacks a built in converter for lossless and mp3, but makes better sounding recordings to my ear for some reason. Your milage may vary... Control the recording level using the input level control for the Soundblaster.In my experience, recording 24/96 and down-converting to 16/44.1 for CD with anything but the best (and most expensive) pro software will actually sound worse than just recording at 16/44.1. Try it and see... Your milage may vary...
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...record at 24/88. if one is eventually converting the files to CD (or any other 44kHz format), the files seem to turn out better when working from an 88kHz source vs 96kHz source.if conversion is never in your future, go for the highest resolution. when i've tested 24/88 vs 24/96, i've not heard a difference. (i did some tests using vinyl recorded from my own system and played back via the same method.)
That is true. Recording at 88.2 does seem to sound better when down-converted to 44.1I record to DVD and thread a video file so it will play in 24/96 on my DVD player when I burn to media.
Most of the time I just play the hi-rez files from my HD tho.
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Al G
Born To Tinker!
"thread a video file."I would like to burn 24/48 from my Edirol to disk, but haven't found a way.
If I could put them on a DVD, that would be cool.
...sound much better than the same files played back from CD/DVD.i agree--once the files are on the HD it makes little sense to move them back to disc.
"i agree--once the files are on the HD it makes little sense to move them back to disc"...Unless you want to store your music in the most popular format that's easy to carry around and will play anywhere...
yeah... you can take your lossless files with you, too. i see what you mean!
Henry
it is because 88.2 is an even multiple of 44.1, whereas to down-convert from 96 to 44 there is more processing involved and not an even relationship between samples.
That makes sense...Converting 24/96 to 16/44.1 really sounded awful compared to a plain old 16/44.1 recording.
24/96 -> 16/44 CAN'T sound good... it's just that it is a touch harder to get it to sound good vs. 24/88 -> 16/44.
Not even sure if CD wave editor can do 24/96 now that I think about it...You could use the Creative Recorder that came with you card and / or Audacity, a freeware recorder / editor. Splitting tracks is a little trickier and more time consuming in Audacity though.
Thanks for the info on the CD Wave Editor. I just downloaded and installed it.
Henry
There's no guarantee that future whatever-disc-players will support
DVD-A. Not so with DVD-V.There are tools that allow writing audio to DVD-V discs.
bring bac k dynamic range
No problem...Thank you for your posts on the Jolida JD-9. Got it a few days ago and I'm enjoying it immensely!
The DVD-A sounds like a great idea. Haven't been down that path yet myself...
Henry
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