GEEK TIME!!!! Recording - Sampling Rates/Harmonic Distortion

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GEEK TIME!!!! Recording - Sampling Rates/Harmonic Distortion

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:nerd: Not just a sales pitch for Fabfilter plugins...
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jCwIsT0X8M[/youtube]
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Re: GEEK TIME!!!! Recording - Sampling Rates/Harmonic Distor

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ive had this discussion with some folks- im just not utterly convinced less harmonic distortion is a GOOD thing. i mean.. analog devices are FULL of it, fets, tubes, overloaded circuits- and we love them. i mean.. API preamps splat and its 'character'! :lol:

meantime- in THEORY.. a good converters sposed to sound the same on all sampling rates. i dont find that to be the case.. cause on my focusrite i found 88.2 to be the happy place... but ymmv...

but i didnt watch the vid- though i will :D
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Re: GEEK TIME!!!! Recording - Sampling Rates/Harmonic Distor

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hm. yeah aliasing is super weird-- that was a cool explanation of how that works-- i've never heard it isolated before. interesting stuff-- i guess as computers get more powerful and storage gets cheaper.. we'll keep narrowing the gap between analog and digital.

cool vid!
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