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Originally Posted by filterayok but in the end, on cd, its gotta be 44.1, 16 bit... so to me, its all about at what point do you want to bring it there?? once u leave pt and go to the cd, your at 16bit 44.1 k, but the mastering guy is eventually gonna have to do this anyway so whats the difference? |
Mastering engineers are used to folks not knowing the difference and will shrug their shoulders and say a 16 bit CDR is fine - because that is all they have to work from.. But they will actually prefer the best resolution possible you can give them..
I will tell you why exactly ...analog gear
The mastering engineer might want to run the audio through a high quality analog signal chain to eq & compress the audio (and a dozen other things they like to do to get it to sound great)
THEN - they will want to convert it to digital again (or send the analog signal to a cutting lathe if its for vinyl)
To send it out to this gear and back again - mastering studios have high quality converters - and they reproduce your audio better at 24 bit resolution than they will at 16 bit..
They will
want to be spitting your audio out at 24 bit
If you have already messed it up by converting it to 16 bit - You wont be allowing them access to send the highest resolution of signal through their analog gear..
- Imagine you were sending in a car for a new paint job and the paint shop said - don't wax the car before sending it in.. and you said "yah well.., I waxed it anyway.."
It's not what point YOU want to bring it to 16 bit. Its about letting the experts bring it down to 16 bit and not doing that yourself. That's a big part of the mastering gig.. There is a lot to it, more than you might think..
