Which Sample Rate bit Depth is best?

[rbmonosylabik]

So you're suggesting 44khz at 24bit?

- Best
- Pasha

Yep. Of course going to higher sample rates like 88.2 or even 192 will mostly likely improve your sound quality, but the single best improvement with the least effort (CPU and disk space wise) is going to 24 bits bit depth.

Note that when you finally go to 16 bits for CD burning (the absolute last step you should do) you'll need a decent bit depth convesion algorithm that supports dithering. Any decent sound editor should support that, probably even Audacity, which is free.

So you would not trust Live rendering?

Live doesn't dither

[massiveheadpain]

8 bit is the best

[Michael-SW]

Live doesn't dither

Exactly. Render in 24 bits in Live with reasonably high level but NO clipping, open in wave editor, normalize to -0.5 dB or so and finally convert to 16 bits with dithering.

[rikhyray]

I changed to 24 bit some years ago, after hearing it for the first time, the difference was obvious. But as long as you use Berhinger any resolution will do, nobody will hear the difference anyway.

[Silicium]

use 32bit floatpoint only for production. Downsampling/Dithering should only be done at the very end after mastering!

[eyeknow]

Woah!!!!!!!!!!

Now THAT is a neckrobump!!!