Presonus FirePod bitrate?

[coolsoundman]

I just bought the firepod and am very eager to start to record. According to presonus, the firepod is supposed to record or can record in 96klh/24bit. I am also using sonar 6 for my recording. In my audio settings, sonar recognizes the firepod, but when I look at the bottom of the window it tells you what bit your recording at and mine is reading 48khz/16 bit. In the audio settings, the bit rate is shown to be marked as 24, but I don't see it at the bottom. Anyone know why this is happening or is there something wrong that I am doing?

 

[Massive Master]

Not knowing your rig, I'm just spouting here -- Could there be a default setting *for the project* that isn't the same as the setting *on the hardware*?

Also - Just as an FYI -- It's bit DEPTH (or word-length). Bit RATE is an entirely different and unrelated thing.

 

[danny.guitar]

Here's a simple test you can do.

Change the settings in the software (Sonar) to whatever sample rate/bit depth you want. Record a track. (Don't bounce/render the mix). Find out where Sonar saves the recorded track to by default (probably your project's folder).

It should be a WAV file. Right-click that WAV file, and go to "Properties". Then go to the summary tab. It should tell you the actual sample rate and bit depth of the file.

("Audio sample size" is the same as bit-depth)

If they don't match the settings in Sonar, then something is wrong. You will need to check the software mixer that the FirePod comes with. Make sure it doesn't have a "Lock sample rate" box checked. And if you have to, set the sample rate there AND in Sonar before recording.