Original Message 1/60                 Date: 11-Oct-04  @  10:21 AM   -   the final stage

Dominic

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I'm having difficulty understanding something. If I am choosing to have my drum sample VST samples to be 32 bit on load and am bouncing down my soft synths to WAV's at 24 bit, then do I choose to record (on my CDR 2 track) at 16 bit or 24 bit and can people I send a 24 bit CDR to, play it on a standard system. Sorry if this is a crap, basic question.

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Message 2/60                 Date: 12-Oct-04  @  01:52 AM   -   RE: the final stage

damballah

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Standard CDs are 44.1k 16 bit stereo.

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Message 3/60                 Date: 12-Oct-04  @  05:37 AM   -   RE: the final stage

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yes, if it is to be a "red book" audio cd that can be played on a standalone player (i.e. in your car) then it must be converted to 16/44.1 first. If you want to deliver 24-bit files or any higher sampling rate, you must burn a data CD that can only be read on a computer.

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Message 4/60                 Date: 12-Oct-04  @  03:07 PM   -   RE: the final stage

Dominic

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Thank you. So do mastering houses prefer 16 bit CDR or 24 bit CDR or DAT to master from. I hear that CDR's accent the higher freqencies too much.

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Message 5/60                 Date: 12-Oct-04  @  04:08 PM   -   RE: the final stage

milan

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you gotta be kidding! CDR is the sound of now man ;)

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Message 6/60                 Date: 12-Oct-04  @  04:19 PM   -   RE: the final stage

Dominic

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So I take it that a 16bit CDR is OK to send off for mastering then?

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Message 7/60                 Date: 12-Oct-04  @  04:43 PM     Edit: 12-Oct-04  |  04:45 PM   -   RE: the final stage

milan

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yes, although in a pro studio they would still use a DAT or at least a good standalone cd-burner. but for the rest of us it should be ok i believe...

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but... if your mixes are in 24bit, then you could theoreticaly send them a wav file in 24bit and leave the conversion to them, since they would (theoreticaly) have better tools to deal with it.

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Message 8/60                 Date: 12-Oct-04  @  05:46 PM   -   RE: the final stage

Dominic

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Thanks. Any idea what's a quality CD burner. I heard that hhb are the best because they are pioneer and use quality components.

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Message 9/60                 Date: 12-Oct-04  @  06:47 PM   -   RE: the final stage

milan

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better wait for psy to answer that i think... my studio had a DAT  

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Message 10/60                 Date: 12-Oct-04  @  09:11 PM   -   RE: the final stage

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i use a pioneer 106 - very 'industry favourite' burns cd and dvd (will of course also burn large ISO UDF DVD-ROM for 4.5 ish gigabytes of backup (VERY useful for archiving whole song folders complete with audio)

you can get the 'oem' version quit affordably without a box at pc fairs

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