12 Sep
2005
12 Sep
'05
1:13 p.m.
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 10:23 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote:
On Monday 12 September 2005 08:55 am, Greg Wilder
wrote:
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
www.steeprockmedia.com
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).