Recording at 48\24?

Crazy thought, but can you get the sample rate up to 88? If you're crunching down to 44 it's a better choice because it only has to cut things in half so to speak.

FWIW 48/24 is my standard recording set up. I don't use Sound Forge or Ozone but I do know that there is no need to dither until you reduce the bit depth, and in fact you shouldn't dither until that point. Dither will introduce noise in the wave file and should ideally be done only once. So says Roey Izahki in "Mixing Audio" and if it's good enough for him it's good enough for me.

So if you're mixing down for export to Sound Forge keeping it at 48/24, same for Ozone and then dither when reducing down to 44.1/16. That's assuming that they will both handle files at that resolution.

You can always convert the 44.1/24 wav files from each project to 48/24 using Voxengo's r8brain pro (with the project closed).
That's what I did when I switched from a consumer card to a pro card and the projects reopened at 48/24.
Voxengo also has a free version somewhere called r8brain but I didn't try that.
Word of caution, make a backup of your project in case something fails!

OK-I'll make a copy of one and give it a shot. Wonder if Sound forge 10 pro will do this also?

My standard rate and depth are also 24/48 basically just a habit formed when my old E-Mu card seemed to prefer 48kHz.

Yes your current export process will remain the same, straight out to 44.1/16.  It is that simple.

gustabo

BTW, just noticed that now the free version is the "light" version of r8brain pro.

FYI--I tried to download the r8brain "light" version, but it is not really free, it is light.  It cost $59.95.  Yes, it is listed on the top of the page with the free Vsts, but it does not show up when selected.  See http://www.voxengo.com/gr...e-vst-plugins/#r8brain

I finally found I could access the light version only by going to the r8brain pro page http://www.voxengo.com/pr...pro/    Then at the top of the page you can select either the pro or the light to go in the shopping cart.  The light version shows up for $59.95.

48 kHz is the standard rate for video (and Jonbouy, old creative cards native rate - I'm still hearing clicks in old albums I converted to CDs back when).  Nothing wrong w/ using it.

The old arguements were "48 is better I can hear the higher frequencies," which always seemed dubious to me (unless you were using the creative cards, which did resampling on the fly and not very well).  the counter arguement was the errors introduced by downsampling to 44.1.  Well, progress is nice and the current programs don't have many if any artifacts.  So use 48 and don't worry about getting it down to 44.1.  Just don't tell me you can hear the higher frequencies. ;-)

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