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A question regarding upsampling, dither and s/pdif

post #1 of 4
11/23/11 at 2:44pm
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So earlier this day my Profire had finally took a ****ter, and after that I sent it off to be serviced. There's one problem bigger than that though - I have a project to finish. So, I am stuck.

As I use my i7 laptop for audio production (has far better specs than my old desktop), I am pretty limited in options. It has an s/pdif out, so I figured that I could connect it with my desktop, which has a decent sound card in it, which also has an s/pdif input.

So I want to use it to monitor mixing. I can't hook my monitors up some other way.

 

My laptop sound card defaults its s/pdif output at 48kHz 16bit. As I mix 44kHz 24bit, I would use Asio4All driver for upsampling (44.1->48).

But, since I am changing bit depth too, my question is - should I put a vst dither plugin (24->16) to run in real time on my master buss?

 

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Edited by Jerk O - 11/23/11 at 2:45pm
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post #2 of 4
11/23/11 at 3:07pm

it may be worse dithering from 24 bit to 16. I would just mix using 24 bit with the 16 bit signal.   I'm no sound engineer just quite well read on "bits"

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post #3 of 4
11/23/11 at 3:14pm
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So, you suggest to not put anything on master buss, just hook the laptop up with the desktop, and that's it?

 

 

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post #4 of 4
11/23/11 at 4:10pm
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Originally Posted by Jerk O View Post

So, you suggest to not put anything on master buss, just hook the laptop up with the desktop, and that's it?

 

 



less is more with sound quality in my experience. The more you convert, clock, mess with the signal the more distorted it becomes. Mixing with 24 over 16 may help smooth out any embarrassment, but changing 24 to 16 can degrade apparently.

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