[linux-audio-user] sample rate question

Chuckk Hubbard badmuthahubbard at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 16:56:15 EST 2007


If you only want to record something once and play it back on CDs,
44.1 k is fine.
If you have any plans to timestretch anything, or loop samples at
different pitches, or do any touchy kind of production, it might be
better to work at the higher rate.
I also can't help thinking that digital filters in general will make
some difference if run at a higher rate and then downsampled.

On 1/16/07, millward <millward at ms.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
> I was wondering, since the CD sample rate is 44100, is there
> any advantage to recording at a higher sample rate?
> My sound card, an Audiophile 24/96, allows much higher
> sample rates and my hard drive is big enough to store the
> resulting files, I think, but what purpose would it serve when
> in the end, an audio CD is only good for 44100 ?
> I'd have to convert down just to be able to burn the final
> product onto CD anyway.
> There must be some advantage to recording at a sample rate
> above 44100.  Could someone tell me what it is?
>


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