[linux-audio-user] 44.1, 48 or 96?

[Greg Wilder]

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

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