is there a big sound difference from 24 bit - 20 bit and 16 bit sound?

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or does it all sound relatively the same and sound quality comes down to your mic placement and so on
 
sorry to say, but you are referring to a topic that has been handled with for a zillion times on this forum.

Sound quality depends on lot of things in your chain. Regarding the 24-20-6 bit discussion, do a search.
Off course 24 bit will deliver a better quality, but use your ears to judge if it is worth upgrading your equipment for it.
 
All things being equil, I'd say there's definately a difference, but as Brett says, use your ears to judge if it is worth upgrading your equipment for it.
 
do you think theres a big difference between 20 bit and 16 bit?

I want to record to my 16 bit sampler to tweak and add effects to my signal,

than dump it onto my 20 bit recorder. Im guessing it will be 16 bit still on the dig recorder since it was first recorded MIDI to teh 16 bit,

but, should I say screw it, so i have better sound quality and not go through the sampler, or to the average listener, does 16 and 20 bit differences go unoticed,
 
If you are talking about pre-recorded samples or synth recordings than it isn't much of an issue.
 
True. When recording from scratch, I feel there's a difference between 16 and 20 bit recordings.
 
Sure there's a difference. There's also a heckova difference in the processing power once you decide to record several tracks at higher resolutions and / or apply plugins to those tracks. That's why I tend to stick to 16 bit resolution.

Someday, when I get a faster computer, I'll try out the higher resolutions. (By then I'm sure they'll have 40 bit resolution!)
 
24/44.1 is the best resolution to computer performance I've found personally. It's when you start getting into higher sampling rates where overhead REALLY starts to hurt. Just my humble opinion.
 
these recoridng ill be running to my sampler are all guitar adn vocals that I will put do myself,

So you feel like my recordings may suffer by doing this and making them form 20 bit to 16 bit?

Also, to the average listener, do you think that they will be able to hear the difference between 16 and 20 bit?
 
The average listener doesn't know shit from shine-ola.
Still conventional wisdom states and I agree, track at the highest bit depth and mix down at the highest bit depth. Only dither to 16 bits to put em on CD.
 
yeah, I want to use the highest bit I can, thats why im facing the "record with no 808 effects with 20 bit quality" or "use teh 808 for effects but make the move to 16 bit"

Im not sure what to do, Cant I record into the 1680's 24 bit card and than use the 16 bit sampler to add effects adn still have my recordings at 20 bit?
 
I record at 24 bits, and sometimes use 96k sampling rate. It does make a big difference. I use the 2480. The bad part is having to dither down to 16 bits when burning a cd. But still it makes a noticable difference in quality. I have some live stuff up recorded at 24 bits, dithered to 16, then converted to mp3's at www.mp3.com/gaws

check em out..

Terry
 
Why rely on your sampler for effects when the 1680 has plenty of effects of its own?
 
see, I got my roland used with no manual, so Im still exploring teh possiblitys with it, I know right now I have delay and reverb.

But i thought that was te only 2 effects that I had because I dont have teh expansion cards.

Are there other effects on teh roland that Im not aware of?
 
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