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Ready to rip - 44.1 or 88.2 khz?

Postby Trackside » 14 Jun 2012 17:22

About to rip records via my SL-1200 MK2 / DL-103 / V-LPS via an E-MU 0404USB into Audition CS5.5 at 44.1khz 32bit. Anyone tell me of a good reason 44.1 khz is not enough to capture all the recorded information I can hear on vinyl? Post production will be limited to clickrepair, a sub 20hz filter and normalising the whole album to reasonable levels as the recording levels are peaking to a max of -6db and it's quieter than digital playback of CD / MP3 ( even ones that have not been 'loudnessed'). I hear talk that musical signals beyond 20khz will be lost as their harmonics exist below this but in my understanding the A-D is still capturing these harmonics but just cutting the inaudible ultrasonic in the file output?
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Re: Ready to rip - 44.1 or 88.2 khz?

Postby Hanuman » 15 Jun 2012 02:44

Read this:

http://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/rip_it_1_e.html

for the reasons (thanks, @dimal, for linking to this in another thread).
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Re: Ready to rip - 44.1 or 88.2 khz?

Postby Trackside » 16 Jun 2012 14:18

Thanks for that link - 88.2khz it is then!
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Re: Ready to rip - 44.1 or 88.2 khz?

Postby Werner » 17 Jun 2012 10:06

I wouldn't bother. You are not doing a lot of post-editing and processing. Stick to 44.1kHz in your case.
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