sound blaster audigy 2

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i have a sound blaster audigy 2 and on the box it says during recording i can go up to 24 bit and 96hz quality but my recording program lets me record in 24 bit and 192,000 bit quality. is the quality going to be better if i record at the 24 bit and 192,000 or am i just waisting hard drive space since it says the recording quality is 24 bit and 96hz quality? O yea and does anyone here record at 24bit 192,000 quality?
 
Your sampling rate can only be as high as the weakest link in the chain. If your soundcard will do 96k, that all you can do.
Alot of people will tell you 192k is a waste anyway. Heck alot of people will even tell you that 96k is a waste.

Many, including myself are happy with 24 bit, 44.1k. I've used 96, but I didn't think it was worth the processing/drive space hit. Then again I am doing dense heavy music so I would say it is less important, or at least less noticable. Certain types of music would probably benefit more.
 
djclueveli said:
i have a sound blaster audigy 2 and on the box it says during recording i can go up to 24 bit and 96hz quality but my recording program lets me record in 24 bit and 192,000 bit quality. is the quality going to be better if i record at the 24 bit and 192,000 or am i just waisting hard drive space since it says the recording quality is 24 bit and 96hz quality? O yea and does anyone here record at 24bit 192,000 quality?
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Well, 96hz will definetly sound like crap! Now stick a K before the h and your in business. ;)

As Metalhead said, most bound for CD projects are quite adequately recorded at 24/44.1, with no sample rate conversion required during mastering. SRC is generally considered to be evil, and pretty much eats up any quality gain from recording at 96K. But you should do your own experiment and do what works best for you. As far as 192Khz, that's a boatload of resources necessary to carry that across a 24 track or more project, and I don't know anyone who's doing that.
There's one more to consider, 24 bit/48Khz, which isn't much of a hit on resources, but again requires SRC before burning to CD, so I just go with 24/44.1

Cheers, RD

BTW,
More important than the sample rate of the converters is the quality of the converters. As you develop your skills and equipment, and consider upgrades, keep the Audigy in mind as a candidate for upgrading. :)
 
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