
Reggie
PutsTheLotionOnItsSkin
Halion said:I do know one rock solid fact why 96khz is *sometimes* better than 44.1khz.
If you pitch a sound far down, in 44.1, you will have less high end than in 96. The air of the human voice is in the highest audible register. Lets say you are recording a scream, there's gonna be stuff in the 10 to 20k range. Now pitch this a full octave down. The 10 to 20k will become 5 to 10k, and because 44.1 has no information above (give or take a khz) 24khz, you have nothing at all about 12khz or so. On the other hand, if you recorded at 96khz, and pitch that down a full octave, you will still have stuff in the 10 to 20 khz range.
Interesting concept, but I would be willing to bet that his information in the upper bands does not have much power to it; and even when using a high sample rate and pitching it down, it will probably be nearly inaudible and definitely not the "meat" of the sound. The "meat" of the sound will just be moved down an octave, and you may have some extra noise--possibly unwanted--that doesn't really match with the tone of the original unpitchshifted sound because it was above the freq response of your ears to begin with. I guess if all you are trying to do is make some weird noises/sound FX, then the point could be to bring the inaudible upper freqs down to a hearable octave in order to obtain a new noise.