96khz? right.

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Okay, I am thinking about gettting one of them alesis HD24. I have a couple of questions.

What is the highest sampling rate and bitrate I can record and still get 24 tracks out of the thing?

I'm guessing 24 bit at 48khz. is this right?

Does the Mackie hard disk recorder record at 96 and 24 bit with all 24 tracks? It is my understanding the alesis unit will record at 96khz, but you can only record 14 tracks or something like that.
 
Maybee, in any case i think the HD24 is ahead of the mackie.

Go to the aesis site and download the PDF faq sheet,should answer any questions.
 
No, The Mackie can only do 12 tracks at 96Khz and the same with the Alesis. Do you think you could ever heard the difference...beyond 22 kHz? ...I don't think I could.

I think the Alesis can do 88kHz and 24 channels.
 
Joel76 said:
Do you think you could ever heard the difference...beyond 22 kHz? ...I don't think I could.
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Huh? since when do adats sample at 22khz? I think you're talking about the human hearing spectrum.
 
Joel76 said:
No, The Mackie can only do 12 tracks at 96Khz and the same with the Alesis. Do you think you could ever heard the difference...beyond 22 kHz? ...I don't think I could.

I think the Alesis can do 88kHz and 24 channels.
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And this kid wasn't terribly impressed with my knowledge!!! :rolleyes:

First off. The HD24 will ONLY do all 24 tracks with UP TO 48KHz sampling rate. To go higher than 48KHz sampling rate, you will also need their "upgrade" converters. But with above 48KHz recordings on the HD24, you will only get 12 tracks of audio.

As for sampling rates, your rhetorical question makes little sense and shows you understand little about how different frequencies effect each other. Rather than flood you with article after article concering the effects of sampling rates on the audio we actually HEAR (as opposed to the brain work and bunch of opinionated engineers who can't see past a spec sheet...) I will just start you off with this little diddy. Of particular interest in this article is article X (10): "Significance of the results". Read in context, it is obvious that the propogation of extended frequency response is indeed important to recorded music, and that extended frequency response, the stuff above what we hear, is indeed important to what we DO hear.

http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~boyk/spectra/spectra.htm

Ed
 
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