Subject:sampling rate

Posted by: examplaire

Date:5/13/2002 1:16:22 AM

Hello,

I do not know what sampling rate I should use to
record from an 8-bit cassette to soundforge5.0 on my
PC.

Should I use a low or higher sampling rate then
re-sample or dither to the required 44.1Khz before i
save to CD?

When should I resample or dither? Before or after processing the audio file

I just want a satisfying answer to a basic question.
Can you help?

sincerely,
examplaire@yahoo.com

Subject:RE: sampling rate

Reply by: beetlefan

Date:5/13/2002 4:52:41 AM

What kind of 8-bit tape is this? Are you doing an analog or digital transfer?

Anyway, if you do an analog transfer, you should it to 16-bit, 44.1, process it, then burn to CD. Now, if it is a digital transfer, covert to 16-bit, 44.1.

With the sound of 8-bit, I highly doubt you will get any benifits from going any higher than that.

You don't want to process in 8-bit because not only will it not work, you will probably make things worse.