Downsampling

fooman · 11th July 2008

Hiya!
After sending some recent work to my ME, I asked for some feedback. He told me that the mixes were pretty impressive and wondered why I recorded at 44.1 and not 88.2 or 96k. I told him simply because I use UAD plugs a lot and using a higher sampling rate would be too much of a headache.

He told me to record at a higher sampling rate and downsample when it comes time to mix.

How would I go about doing this. I use Sonar 7, and I'm not sure how to do this....

thedigitalgod · 11th July 2008

or just tell him that it makes no sense to track at a high sample rate if youre going to mix at the lower rate -- most of the benefit of the higher sample rate would be in the mixing stage anyway. especially if tracking at 96 and downsampling to 44.1, 88.2 to 44.1 would be better. just my opinion.

IxtabStudios · 11th July 2008

If you downsample in Sonar, know that the phase will be flipped. Check out SRC Comparisons for a few comparisons.

thedigitalgod · 11th July 2008

excellent link. . . thanks

11th July 2008	#1
fooman Lives for gear Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,118 Thread Starter	Downsampling Hiya! After sending some recent work to my ME, I asked for some feedback. He told me that the mixes were pretty impressive and wondered why I recorded at 44.1 and not 88.2 or 96k. I told him simply because I use UAD plugs a lot and using a higher sampling rate would be too much of a headache. He told me to record at a higher sampling rate and downsample when it comes time to mix. How would I go about doing this. I use Sonar 7, and I'm not sure how to do this.... __________________

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IxtabStudios Gear nut Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tours, France Posts: 122	If you downsample in Sonar, know that the phase will be flipped. Check out SRC Comparisons for a few comparisons. __________________ www.ixtab.fr - Studio Pro Tools en plein coeur de Tours. Enregistrement, répétition, post-production.

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11th July 2008	#2
thedigitalgod Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 756	or just tell him that it makes no sense to track at a high sample rate if youre going to mix at the lower rate -- most of the benefit of the higher sample rate would be in the mixing stage anyway. especially if tracking at 96 and downsampling to 44.1, 88.2 to 44.1 would be better. just my opinion.