Is 24 or 32 bit depth audio worth it for LP commentary?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > Is 24 or 32 bit depth audio worth it for LP commentary?

KillHour: Oct 28, 2007; $70 of cognitive dissonance and counting

England Sucks posted:

No. Not in any way or form. 44khz. 16 bit.

Only Musicians and only good musicians get any excuse to do anything else.

Even good musicians don't have an excuse. I'll spare you the math, but anything higher for sample rate is far outside the range of human hearing (and indeed speaker reproduction capabilities in 99% of cases). The only reason to use higher bit depths than 16 is if you need to maintain 16 bit dynamic range while using software volume adjustment.

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KillHour: Oct 28, 2007; $70 of cognitive dissonance and counting

That's getting into really specialized techniques for professional mastering, and you never find anything higher than 24/48k in the final mix anyways. As always, if you have to ask, the answer is no.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2014 23:10

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