24/96?

[Un-Possible]

Hi

I was given some advise in regards to recording...

The advise was thus...

"Record your instruments at 24/44 and record your vocals at 24/96 then dither down to 16/44 for your red book CD.

My question is - is it possible to do multi frequency recording within the same project? i.e. record as stated above within the project. I tried to change the bit rate of the project and it altered the entire project to a chipmunk version of the song I'm working on. So I changed it back and recorded the vocals at 24/44. I would like to know for the future if ti possible however.

Anyways thought I wuold ask some of the Cubase Gurus out there.

Please let me know.

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

I think that advice is completely ridiculous... stupid, actually.

First of all, you CAN'T mix sample rates effectively in Cubase (in most s/w, I would think) without messing things up quite a bit, not the least of which is sync and pitch.

Second, the important spec is going 24-bit -- the difference between 44.1Khz and 96KHz is far too subtle for the needs of most home-recordist's projects - especially when considering the extended storage needed to accommodate the higher rate. And if you absolutely want that level of fidelity, then make ALL tracks 24/96 and leave it at that.

Third - keep hanging around here... the next time that person feeds you more bullshit, you'll have a place you can cross-check the crap!

 

[manning1]

possible. i agree with blue bear.
i would even go further. i'm a puter engr.
i suggest you get whover gave you that advise to do what i did as an experiment. i looked at the digital bit patterns that make up samples using some low level computer programming techniques. what you will find in summary as bb said is tons of wasted space on the hard drive.
i would go even further and state that providing you have very good convertors eg: lynx . 44.1 16 bit will sound great.
plenty of great songs if you remember were done on adats that were 16 bit years ago. the key point is how good are the convertors in the sound card.
i agree with bb - 24 bit (if you must) 44.1 is the max you need to go.
just a stupid computer engineers opinion.

 

[warble]

24/44 here. Sounds great to my ears.

Cubase won't let you mix - that I know of anyway. It uses one setting per project.

 

[Alejo]

Taking about stupid comments:
The only thing I know is that my Nero allows me only 16bits when burning my songs for being played in normal recorders. Maybe I should read more before posting, but, if the final product only can be readed in 16/44, why do you must load your machine with higher rates during recording?
Sorry in advance,
Alejo.

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

if the final product only can be readed in 16/44, why do you must load your machine with higher rates during recording?

Fot the same reason that when you do graphic design, you work with/manipulate images at the highest resolution possible before rendering them to lower-resolutions. The quality is far better than if you work with lo-res right from the start.

That being said, it makes absolutely no sense, however, to try to mix sample rates within a project.

 

[kylen]

I don't mix sample rates - in fact SONAR won't let you and will up/down sample to whatever the project you're working in is set to.

I've recently begun working in the 88.2/96KHz 24/32bit range, I upsample from 44.1KHz 16bits, mix and apply effects like compression, eq, reverb then downsample during 'mastering' to whatever the medium is I need: CD, DVD, MP3...

Working at 96KHz really eats my cpu alive though...track locking is mandatory for me (Adobe Audition & Sonar4).

 

[Un-Possible]

Thanks very much everyone for the feedback.

I did my recording in 24/44 and it worked really well ( at least so far )

I appreciate the help.