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Posted on Jun 16, 2008 01:51 pm
Brian Hall
Member Since: May 06, 2008
Why must you use 24bit to master audio files, why won't 16 bit work?
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Jun 16, 2008 01:56 pm You don't need to...but here is why it's good.
You start out with a 16 bit file, apply effects, panning, fades and various processing...all this stuff does calculations on the digital data...during all processing answers to calculations are rounded off, thereby bastardizing the data with the more processing. Therefore, a fully processed file that atarted as 16 bit could technically be the quality of a 13 bit or so...if you start out with a higher bitrate with all the mucking around you still wind up with a file higher in resolution than 16 bit.
No different than any media, you always want your source file to be as high of a resolution as possible, then dumb it down to the final formatting, keeping the high rez originals.
Hope that makes sense.
Dec 09, 2008 03:39 pm This happens to me every time I wipe my hard drive and completely uninstall Windows and then reinstall it. The problem is within my Steinberg Wavelab Audio Montage. After compiling multiple tracks for mastering onto the audio montage work bench, I would prepare the final audio for CD burning. However, my CD-R drive would not display or show up in Wavelab. Obviously there is not a problem with the driver for my CD drive since I am able to burn via other mastering or CD burning softwares. I've tried to update my driver and the problem still has not been solved. Any technical help relating to this matter would definately be appreciated. Peace...
Greg
Dec 09, 2008 03:42 pm The single worst thing about WaveLab is it's driver management. For some reason they are insistent that the default ASAPI drivers that every other application finds perfectly acceptable, they do not. If your burner is a model that is post-wavelab release there are driver updates and crap (or it used to be that way, I am a few version behind with WaveLab).
The only thing that has every fixed it for me is heading over the steinberg.net and downloading their latest driver update patches...
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