[linux-audio-user] Ardour and DAT

Hi Everyone, I am editing a radio programme on ardour and the whole project has to be delivered on DAT (Tape)format to the Radio station. As I am using a lot of music made by myself and other friends the music and a lot of 'field recordings ' that are on cd format(16 bit, 44Khz Audio). I am using 'Soundblaster Creative Audigy ZS'. Now there are a few issues/points that were coming up regarding resampling, recoring on DAT etc. 1. Now a lot of field recordings and Music in on Cd (16bit ,44Khz) format. And I am working with 48Khz ,16bit on the jackd(deamon) and on ardour. Now if I oversample/ ‘resample at a higher rate’ in ardour by importing it in the 'Auditions' region i.e. basically from 44Khz to 48Khz. Will I loose out on quality. Is the Ardour re-sampler good enough to handle this conversion. 2. Or, should I work with 16bit-44Khz setting (on jackd/Ardour) and export the final mixed session once finished to 16bit-48Khz(DAT) . So I can take the dump of the final session on DAT tapes. Will this way be better than the point(1) above in which all the audio is individually re-sampled at 3. I have a 'Tascam DA-P 1' DAT recorder on which I have to dump the final edit. So how do I go about this. Should I play the audio in Ardour only and the send it to the DAT recorder. Or should i play the exported file in a player like Alsaplayer/ Audacity(which plays audio rec at 48Khz ‘?’) and then take the dump through SPDIF out into the DAT recorder. Is this possible to do the above mentioned process(s) any other way, which might be better. Basically Im dealing with a lot of audio at 44KHz which has to mixed together and the final output will be on 48Khz(DAT Tape). What could be the best way to deal with it so that there is no or very little loss in quality. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot ISh (frEeMuZik.net/ sarai.net)