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Boydie

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« Reply #15 on: January 22, 2013, 12:37:22 PM »
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The clipping you hear is probably my voice as I track at 32bit and distortion's near impossible at that bitrate.


How do you find 32bit?

I am still tracking at 16 bit depth (not to be confused with bit rate) but plan on upping this to 24bit as the best compromise between headroom and filesize for future projects

It is still, however, possible to produce clipping at these bit depths - less likely at the recording stage but easily done when mixing - eg gain staging, compression, eq, etc. - so always worth taking care
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Alan Starkie

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« Reply #16 on: January 22, 2013, 01:24:05 PM »
Ha! Right after accidentally locking the topic and having no idea what I'd done.... Boydie, I always use 32bit when tracking because I once read that CPUs handle 32 bit maths better than 24 bit maths. I'm also going to start tracking at 48khz after a studio colleague informed me that was now standard. I master at 24 bit though and then dither to 16 bit. No loss in 'bits'.