Quentin Harley wrote: > the quality of your signal chain is just as important as the > converters you use.
Over time e.g. the cords can change their capacitance and become an unwanted equalizer. Cheap op-amps can shift phases. > I have produced may CD's, one of which is now in it's second > production run because of demand, using 64 studio, Special home-made mics A friend and I were engineers for Brauner microphones. The friend still has got some of the best Brauner microphones. It seems to be, that low coast Envy24 sound devices will have a loss of quality, because recordings on even 4-Track-Cassette-Recorders and less expensive consumer DAT recorders with high quality microphones are fine, but there is a loss in the sound quality for recordings on Envy24 based sound devices, for Linux and Windows. This might be the same for other sound devices. Next time my computer case is opened, I'll take a look at the op-amps of my sound card. I noticed that if I raise the volume of the mixer and the amp to is maximum, I can here a kind of click noise. Maybe the electric smog of PC's with high frequencies and a bad electric screen have impact to the sound too, even if noise can't be heard at normal levels. By the way, I heard about that less expensive Art tube pre-amps should have a positive effect for computer recordings. Frank Smith wrote: > I can say with conviction that Ardour running on 64studio 'sounds' > better than Sonar on windows on the same hardware! In the past, my sound device had a better quality for Windows, today for my sound device the quality for Windows and Linux is the same, but recordings with the computer at 48KHz/ 24bit are not as good as recordings on a consumer DAT at 48KHz/ 16bit. > So there are other factors at play as well. Maybe drivers for the sound devices, perhaps the way an instance like JACK will round the sampled data etc. ... _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
