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chriskorff wrote:

Fluxpod wrote: And capturing the source at the highest possible bit and samplerate is a BIG+

Absolutely! But, where the source has a definite peak (eg. an already recorded tape), and the source has a noise floor significantly greater than 16bit (eg. cassette), recording at a greater bit depth is a waste of hard disk space and will not benefit the end result.

Please remember that I'm ONLY talking about noise floor here, NOT 'accuracy' (either of the recording, or the digital processing done after the recording). Assuming a source with SNR <96dB, the noise floor of the source will MASK the inherent noise floor of 16 bit audio.

Live recording is, of course, another matter, requiring headroom for unpredictable peaks. Digitisation of analogue recordings, however, is entirely predictable.

Cheers,

Chris

I disagree 100% capturing of "tape" is never predictable...without all that noisefloor etc talk.It is better to use 24 bits..harddiskspace isnt anything to worry about.And nobody here knows how hot this"tape" was recorded..so it could very well be needed to capture it very hot or very soft.Its not as easy as some peps think...there are always thing that come by and get or can get you in trouble..and i dont like that so i just go 24/96 and never worry about what could have saved me some mb on the hd or how i could have avoided dither....or an src.This goes for stereo,if its 8 or more tracks..i do that only at work due no machines here at home exept a 1/2 studer.And i LOVE tape..i just bought 4 reels of 1/2 ATR Magnetics, brand new and it is the shit!!! I record everything in Cubase out of scope> tape and back into sx..it gives the glue to a mix you have to hear it ...and the smell of new tape gets me everytime i buy a reel .

Million thanks for all...

Well the tape that I'm converting is a regular audio tape sony 90 min, it's for a cousin witch's is recorded from 15 years back, it's instrumental oriental music, with a small amount of vocal witch the vocal is in harmony with music...

for me i used to do restoration for bad record,near of the forensic audio restoration, witch i use too much adaptive noise reduction, as i need the most of the time to get the vocal............. and now I'm a little confused concerning this request.

Should i go to 24 bits and 44100 kHz, and i will use my direct input from my Scope home instead of using the z-link>

Do we need to create a poll for this question ?

and if some one would like... i can upload a small amount of a file and he can advice me... if that acceptable.

Best regard for all, and sorry for my retard reply.

Ladiki