I think you misunderstood. You are right that if you take a cd and copy it to dat you obviously don't get an increase in sound quality but this has nothing to do with the point.
I was saying that if you are mastering from an analogue source (eg desk, sampler or soundcard output) you should theoretically get a slight increase in sound quality although, as I said before, if the final product will be on CD this will be lost. al -----Original Message----- From: pHluid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 January 2002 21:32 To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List Subject: [dnb-prod] RE: mastering from CD/DAT There's no "quality increase" to begin with. The higher sampling rate is nullified by the CD... a 48khz medium reading a 44khz medium can only duplicate what it hears. It doesn't matter if I take a 4khz wav file and save it to a dat, it's still going to sound exactly the same as the 4khz wav file did... That's basically like saying you can save an AM radio broadcast to a CD and make it CD quality. The medium is only as good as what you feed into it. Christian ----- Original Message ----- From: "alpher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 3:26 PM Subject: [dnb-prod] RE: mastering from CD/DAT > There may be a slight increase in sound quality because of the higher > sampling rate (48KHz as opposed to 44.1KHz for CD) but if the music is > going to finally end up on CD the sample rate conversion needed to > reduce from dat to CD frequency may negate any perceived quality > increase. > > al > > -----Original Message----- > From: carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 January 2002 16:28 > To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List > Subject: [dnb-prod] mastering from CD/DAT > > has anyone noticed a difference in quality when you take a CD to be > mastered as opposed to DAT? i know there shouldn't be a difference in > quality, but i've heard people swear that you get better bass with > DAT... could it be? > > nice one, > mutiny > --- > Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk > You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk > You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
