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aidyhall · 19th February 2006

So, a friend has a beautiful-sounding Prism AD-1 converter that I can basically have, but I'd like to know if there are any issues with running a 16-bit AES signal into a 24-bit ProTools session?

Does ProTools just 'zero-pad' the AES input to create a 24-bit audio file? How does it know? I presume there is some kind of 'flag' in the AES stream, to signify bit depth, but how does PT deal with it?

19th February 2006	#1
aidyhall Gear maniac Joined: Sep 2004 Location: London Posts: 209 Thread Starter	16-bit AES input into 24-bit session? So, a friend has a beautiful-sounding Prism AD-1 converter that I can basically have, but I'd like to know if there are any issues with running a 16-bit AES signal into a 24-bit ProTools session? Does ProTools just 'zero-pad' the AES input to create a 24-bit audio file? How does it know? I presume there is some kind of 'flag' in the AES stream, to signify bit depth, but how does PT deal with it? __________________ Adrian Hall Producer/Engineer/Mixer www.adrian-hall.com