Sample Rate for Imported Tracks

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I'm importing waves from a drum session recorded on a friends computer, and he has a different daw than me which can't export to a compatible file format for me to open in my own program, so I'm importing his waves. Should I have him bounce his waves to a higher sample rate than what I'm using since the imported tracks will have already been rendered one time more than the rest of the guitar/bass/vocals tracks I add? Or is it bad to have files of differing sample rates in the same song? Just wondering whats the best way to do the transfer while losing the least amount of audio quality.
 
Just have him bounce the .wav files to the same bit depth and sample rate as your session.
 
Well that's what I usually have done in the past, but you can always tell that there's a difference in quality between the two. It's not huge, but enough for a lot of people to notice.
 
cdogg007 said:
Well that's what I usually have done in the past, but you can always tell that there's a difference in quality between the two. It's not huge, but enough for a lot of people to notice.
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Then something went wrong somewhere.
 
I'd be inclined to say that the original srate and depth they were recorded in (so that the data is unchanged) and the srate and depth of the new project should both work.

As John said, if matching the new project changes the sound significantly, something went wrong.
 
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