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Originally Posted by RASP
It would seem as though I was wrong. I found an interesting quote from Bob Katz, a mastering god, who had the following to say about sample rates:
"Usually 48K sounds more "open" to me. And 96K sounds "purer and warmer" while retaining the openness of 48K. I highly recommend 48K over 44.
HOWEVER, yes, I've encountered situations where 44 sounds better than 48! If the material sounds better a little more closed in and less revealing... It all goes back to the choice of compromises and the nature of the original recording. I try to upsample to 96K for any digital processing, so at the end of that chain I get to listen to both the 96 and the 44 and I'd hate to admit it (lose my audiophile license)--- for SOME material, especially the hard rock, the 44.1 reduction takes away some of the ugliness or softens some of the distortion. Most times, though, I terribly miss the 96K.
This is a dilemma, should we use the more open, revealing format only to like the reduction at the end, or get our sound at 48K that we like and hope for the least "degradation" when reduced to 44K? I say, do what works best under the individual circumstances, and get to know your medium's limitations---or even advantages."
I guess I'll be giving 48kHz another try.
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you weren't wrong... many people just can't hear 20 KHz and many times the aliasing phenomenon isn't that bad due to the fact that we usually don't produce with our instruments frequencies so high... I think that "open" "purer" "warmer" even used by Katz do mean NOTHING. I've seen a video of a meeting of great audio technician here in Italy where the speaker let them hear to some recordings done with the same microphone and different pres: the first list was in order so "this comes from a UAD, this one from a Neve, this from a Focusrite" and so on and people sitted there swear to recognize each sounds due to the "crisp" or the "flat" and other kind of BULL$HIT. Then he mixed the files and say "this is file 1, 10 seconds ago you saied that it is obviously an ... what is the pre?" EVERYONE GAVE DIFFERENT ANSWERS at this point and he started laughing. This prove many things but above the other there is only one... brains are "influenceable" (hope this is the correct word)...
So I think that it's not important the frequency or the bit rate... but just the fact we DO like or not the recording...