bringing 24bits/96Khz to 16bits/44.1Khz

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I am wondering which way is best to bring a project recorded in 96/24 to a cd player. By converson, like in Sound Forge (doing it mathematically) or sending the output of the sound card to another computer that records in 16bits/44.1khz (kind of an analog way) ?

Can you send the output of a sound card to the input of the same sound card to do so?

Thierry
 
lapieuvre said:

1.......By converson, like in Sound Forge (doing it mathematically)

2. or sending the output of the sound card to another computer that records in 16bits/44.1khz (kind of an analog way) ?

3. Can you send the output of a sound card to the input of the same sound card to do so?.....
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1. Yes.

2. You could do it that way, but you would lose a lot through the process of DA/AD conversion.

3. Yes, you can. But..... I wouldn't because of the reason stated in answer #2. :cool:

spin
 
What kind of soundcard do you have, and are you using an excellent word clock?

If you are using the garden variety crap semi-pro cards that seem to be popular, and don't have an excellent word clock, I would do it with a SRC application. I don't know how well Sound Forge does it, but Wavelab has a pretty good built in SRC.

If you have a great card with excellent converters, and a VERY stable word clock, I would run back out analog with possibly UV22 dithering applied and record back in at 16/44.

Somehow, I suspect that you are going to have more questions coming. All's I have to say is that asking this vary question means that you are not terribly up on this subject, and have little first hand experience with "mastering". EXPERIMENT!

Good luck.

Ed
 
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