Hi Ralf, > I'm fine with the quality of DAT, 48KHz 16-bit, but I've no experience > with recording using Linux. 44.1KHz 16-bit seems to be not fine while > producing with Linux.
Your sound card can do better. Check the messages window in Jack Control, because Jack will try 32-bit I/O first, then if that fails, fall back to 24-bit, and if that fails, finally try 16-bit. As for sample rate, it's practical to record at 96KHz if you have the disc space, but depending on the material you're recording, you may not hear a big improvement over 48KHz. > And how can I convert the mastering to CD quality I strongly recommend that you reduce and dither to 16-bit at the very last stage in the mastering process, rather than at any point before. You can do this by connecting your Jack application to Jamin, then bit-reducing and dithering the audio returned from Jamin. If you bit reduce before sending the audio to Jamin, then all those extra bits will be wasted, because you'll be doing DSP on the 16-bit audio. The way I do this is to create a bus in Ardour called 'jamin return'. The Ardour session for mastering is made up of 32-bit stereo mixes, one per track, which have been exported from earlier Ardour multitrack sessions. In the mastering session, the stereo output of Ardour's master bus is connected to Jamin's inputs, and the outputs of Jamin are connected to the inputs of Ardour's 'jamin return' bus, as well as the hardware output for the studio monitors. That way, I get to listen to Jamin's output via the 24-bit hardware of the sound card. When I choose Export in Ardour, I export a wav file only from the 'jamin return' bus, which is reduced to 16-bit with a shaped noise dither, ready for burning to CD in Gnome CD Master. See Quentin's tutorial at: http://www.64studio.com/manual/audio/ardour/cdmarkers Cheers! Daniel _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
