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Re: Proud Owner of A New Sony D50!

Subject: Re: Proud Owner of A New Sony D50!
From: "dannymeltzer" dannymeltzer
Date: Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:42 pm ((PDT))
Welcome to the club, I have a D50 as well and love it.

The only benefit to recording 24/96 for you would be if you were going to d=
o a lot of mixing and effects processing on the file, it would probably sou=
nd cleaner and nicer to put the track through a lot mixing at 24/96 than at=
 a lower resolution, but other than that you should be able to get away wit=
h recording at a lower resolution for creating MP3's

I always record at 24/96 just out of habit because it's easy enough to down=
sample, but you can never go back if for some reason you wanted it at a hig=
her resolution.  But that's just one school of thought.

--- In  "scratchpaws" <> wr=
ote:
>
> Well, thanks to all the input from this group and Mr. Michael Oster's sit=
e at f7sound.com, I purchased the D50 last week.
>
> So, because of Group generosity, I'll be posting on recording progress an=
d the machine as I go, in hopes that I can help someone who is where I was =
just a few days ago---adrift and lost on the dark, murky audio sea.
>
> Well, I'm still somewhat lost; however, first report.
>
> So far, this thing rocks.
> Menu fairly straight forward. If you understand "drop down" style menus, =
it's a cakewalk.
>
> Powered it up, set it to 96 kHz/24 bit, got in a quiet room, wrapped it i=
n multiple layers of thick blankets, and recorded twenty seconds of "noise =
floor..."
>
> Recording is a breeze.
>
> What noise floor? My rock and roll ears didn't hear much. This thing appe=
ars to be quiet as a mouse.
>
> Making windscreens, will report on them later. Same with "soundproof" umb=
rella.
>
> However, recorded one minute of audio at the 96/24 setting. Wow! Massive =
file, something like 35 mb. Since my recordings will be several minutes lon=
g, I have a question.
>
> I'll be creating nothing but mp3 files, VBR between 170-210 kbps. So what=
 if I come off the 96/24 .wav record setting and drop down to 48/24 or some=
thing like that---even 44.1/24? Or, would I have a better quality mp3 file =
if I stay up at the 96.24 .wav record setting before creating the mp3s?
>
> Thanks again for everyone's help. As Arnold says: "I'll be back" when I h=
ave more to report on this machine.
>











"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause


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