| You want as good as you can get. As you have no ideal how the sound fonts you're using "really" sound without good da conversion. Your rider mower might get the job done quick. But since you've got bulky tires and on it. You missed the entire fence line, and around the trees, drive, sidewalk, dog house, and all corners. So when your client gets home you get an angry call wondering why you didn't finish mowing. There's a foresty tuft of grass around all objects and borders. You may have gotten most of it. But any client with an eye for quality and standards isn't gonna stand for it. Especially if they paid you enough to buy their own mower / weedwhacker.
If you do your own sampling, you wont know how it really sounds without good da conversion. You may not even know if you got bad gear if you don't have good converters that reveals all. I've heard at least one 205 modded mic that sounded great. Until you played it on good gear, and the bassy rumble on some of the lows shines like silver bullet. And more in line with my own gear, on my laptop wind noise doesn't sound half bad, but on better gear, it's down right annoying. And when I record bass heavy things like thunder or a Tuba, it sounds like them, but when played back on higher end gear, it's lacking the boomy rattle your bones sound that it had live. And you know for certain that your monitors / speakers are very capable of such sounds.
I suppose you could trust your predifined electronic sounds to be flawless. But that doesn't mean your clients aren't using better gear than you to listen to it. And not liking it because it sounds bad to them, and they're wondering if you're deaf, blind, or just plain dumb. It might sound good to you, but if you up the ante, the piano might really sound like a harsichord, the drums like cheap trash cans, the triangle like a broken beer bottle. If that's what you were going for, then fine. If not, you may not realize it on lesser gear. |