44000 Hz vs 48000 Hz - what rate are YOU using?

nope i work at 44.1 all the time,i usaully do mixing in 44.1 24 it and then eventualy dither down to 16 bit..im sure youll find most users actually se 44 more than you would think.

48k is a common standard with digital video.

I will recommend 48K and 24 bit rate. DVD media is 48K vs 44K for CD's. Apple and HP is pushing to sell premium music at above CD standard rate. The plan is not to kill CD and MP3 levels, but to sell at a higher price, as defined by Dr Dre, "studio quality music".
 
Record music at the same level of the sample libraries you are using. This is very necessary if you are scoring chamber music and the like from such original libraries. It's like wearing a tuxedo to a hip-hop or rock concert.

I've been using 24bit 44.1KHz for audio, but recently switched to 24bit 96KHz as I want to experiment with some of the high end digital audio afforded by various blu-ray and HD-audio DVD formats.

KEv

I'm at 48k and 24-bit. 

jyeager11

Are most of you working at the 48000 Hz rate?

Record at 48k @ 24 bit, mix down to 44.1k @ 16 bit using dither and noise shaping between the two.

24bit/48k then master to 16/44.1 for CD.

44kHz or 48kHz??? Pfft... Use 2.8224MHz :p

44.1/24 for me.  It works.

48/24 here.

I'm only surprised that someone hasn't claimed they can hear the difference yet.

you guys that do use 44/24..do you need to dither down or does x1 take care of this for you..just wondering becuase im thinking of moving up to 24?

WDI
Sounds like a conflict of sharing drivers between programs. There are several ways to avoid these conflicts. But I've always found the easiest way is to configure windows to use the onboard sound chip of the mother board and configure Sonar to use ASIO with my Edirol or Fireface.

This was Plan B. I was trying to avoid it simply because I'm trying to minimize the number of cables leaving my computer (and going into the mixer).

Another reason to avoid it was that I am often comparing my projects with popular songs, sonically, for mixing purposes. So if I've got, say, Adobe Audition or WMP playing something, I like to be able to switch back and forth between that and Sonar X1b. Just to compare lows, mids, highs, etc. and it would seem to me that if one of those two was using a different "soundcard" I'd be comparing apples and oranges instead of apples and apples (ie, both using same card).

But definitely Plan B if I can't get this resolved. I just don't know why I can't get Sonar X1b and WMP to play at the same time on the same card if "Share with other applications" is checked.

48kHz, 64bit all the way except Wave-files 32bit floating....

Hello : remember that your are listening to final masterd CD.. I
often use a known good CD when mixing. then do the mastering to
get the final sound im looking for..Now why isnt everything using
ASIO...

jyeager11

WDI
Sounds like a conflict of sharing drivers between programs. There are several ways to avoid these conflicts. But I've always found the easiest way is to configure windows to use the onboard sound chip of the mother board and configure Sonar to use ASIO with my Edirol or Fireface.

This was Plan B. I was trying to avoid it simply because I'm trying to minimize the number of cables leaving my computer (and going into the mixer).

Another reason to avoid it was that I am often comparing my projects with popular songs, sonically, for mixing purposes. So if I've got, say, Adobe Audition or WMP playing something, I like to be able to switch back and forth between that and Sonar X1b. Just to compare lows, mids, highs, etc. and it would seem to me that if one of those two was using a different "soundcard" I'd be comparing apples and oranges instead of apples and apples (ie, both using same card).

But definitely Plan B if I can't get this resolved. I just don't know why I can't get Sonar X1b and WMP to play at the same time on the same card if "Share with other applications" is checked.

When using the Share Drivers setting what happens is that the program that has Windows' focus gets the driver so you can never hear 2 programs playing at the same time. It sounds counter intuitive but you need to uncheck that setting.