I have always followed the 16-bit 44,100hz Stereo way.
If you have a 24-bit sound card what settings do you record @ ?
I have always followed the 16-bit 44,100hz Stereo way.
If you have a 24-bit sound card what settings do you record @ ?
generally you want to record to the highest bit rate, but keep in mind, Redbook CD Standard is 16-bit 44.1khz Stereo Interleaved, so you will eventually down convert if you plan on burning to CD.Originally Posted by | Bass Drop |
what are you recording? I can tell you more specifically if I know what you are trying to record.
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A 79:xx DJ set that will be handed out on CD.
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I always record at 24/96 if I can and dither down as necessary.
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If I do that Aaron, (in short) what steps do I need to do after that (as far as preparation for tracking and buring to CD?) I thought regardless of the original bitrate, while burning/converting to .cda it auto coverts it to 160kbps
How are you getting from the DJM to the laptop? It's great that your sound card supports it, but does your mixer? And the cables? (I don't know the answers of if that matters)
Furthermore -- what's the max quality for vinyl? CDs obviously are at 16-bit so your source CDs won't sound better if you record them at 24-bit.
what are you recording in? Soundforge? Wavelab? A Wax Cylinder?
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I use 24bit recording but still 44.1 for the sampling rate.
Edit: I didn't realize this was for recording a set (and I am guessing the cdjs are hooked up analog rather than digital as the turntables are)...I'm not sure how much of a difference the bit depth would make, but I figure the sampling rate would be good to go with the highest.
And as someone already said, if you burn this to a cd it's just going to go down to 16bit 44.1 anyway.
Last edited by robhyx; 2009-06-19 at 12:55 PM.
People have sent me WAVs at 44.8 or 48 or something, and they were obnoxiously huge.
No. Burning to disc will dither down the quality to 16/44.1, usually automatically. Record your mix in the highest quality possible, trackmark/track split (as necessary) and burn as you normally would. If there's an option for dithering, select it. Unless it's an MP3 disc, it'll never be 160Kbps.
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I record everything at 24/96 and dither down as appropriate. You always want to record at a higher rate when possible, even if your source material is lower (16/44.1) because you have to account for noise inherent in the mixer, etc. Your digital source material becomes analog once it leaves the CD players and some of the signal you record up is the warmth (or noise) added by it.
Losers like myself who spend all of our time in the studio can notice a difference between a 24/48 and a 16/44.1. The trade off is lack of a social life and a lowered sense of self-worth.
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But the real question is: can you look at a waveform and tell what genre it is?
Yes. If it looks like a Tetris piece with two small gaps of silence where the breakdowns are, it's skullstep.
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RCA to 1/8th " jack.
I think I meant 128Kbps?
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