[ddots-l] Re: 48 versus 44.1 for recording

  • From: "Shawn Brock" <shawn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:08:02 -0700

Personally, I record at 48, and I can tell some difference.  Its not to where 
you could give me 2 different recordings and I could point out which was 48 and 
which is 44.1.  

Lots of people will come back with the "there's no difference".  And for them 
this is probably true.  You would be hard pressed though to find a studio which 
works on a digital format who records at less than 48K.  

The daw you bought will handle 48K with no problem.  I have 24-48 projects with 
80 tracks, and at least 40 plugins running, and the ADK don't even start to get 
sluggish. 

As for converting your projects, I'm not the one to answer that.  It depends on 
a lot of things, such as some of your sonar settings.  

Shawn Brock
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian Howerton 
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:57 PM
  Subject: [ddots-l] 48 versus 44.1 for recording


  Hello folks,
  I was wondering if there is a noticable difference in recording at 48 versus 
recording at 44.1...  FOr those who do record at 48, is it a noticable enough 
of an improvement to make it worth switching?
  If you wanted to experiment and record something at 48, besides changing the 
sample rate on your audio interface, and going in to the options menu and audio 
in sonar, is there anything else you would need to do to make this switch?  
Also, how would you convert from an existing project that was recorded at 44.1 
to 48?  Thanks fro your help,
  Brian

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