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captain54
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 Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:25 pm Post subject: Anyone Using the MicPort Pro as their main interface? |
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the MicPort Pro has found it's way into my home workstation for occasional duty as my main interface, but there's something that's not clear to me about it's use with Audition (or any other software for that matter)
I'm choosing my audio outputs in my computer soundcard, simply for playback..this involves resetting to the Audition 3.0 Windows sound driver, where you can set the MicPort as the input source in Direct Sound full duplex mode....I noticed that the operating sample bit is 16.
does this mean that I am recording and playing back at 16 bits through the MicPort with the Audition 3 Windows driver? |
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Mike Sommer
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| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 6:03 am Post subject: |
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Utilizing Mic Port Pro on my Windows Laptop as a back-up to MAC platform. Also recording audiobook on laptop for RB&D as their upload software is windows based. Love it.
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CC Heim
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the MicPortPro is my main interface. In fact, its all I use.
Now, don't know if that's good or bad, but that's what I's gots |
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captain54
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| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:09 am Post subject: |
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| Mike Sommer wrote: | If the recored audio is 16 bit, then yes.
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what I'm assuming is happening with this setup is that coming out of the computer soundcard for playback, and coming in to the MicPort for recording in Audition, means you are forced to switch to the Microsoft Direct Sound protocol, which is very high latency and only 16 bit capable...So even though you have a lovely 24/96 interface you are forced to use it @ 16/44.....not cool..
I would to disagree with Mr. Tweak, or Mr. Headz, or whatever he prefers to be called. It doesnt take a superhuman set of ears to hear the difference between 16 and 24 bit... I'm not really talking sound "quality"
I'm talking about the grittiness that comes with excessive noise mixed in with your signal... |
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Mike Sommer
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I think what he is saying is that "Most" can not hear the difference. And in the day to day real world this is true.
It often boils down to how the tracks are compared. In a blind side by side Pepsi Challenge, I can tell the difference between a track that is dithered and a track that is not. In the real world, I would be hard pressed to tell you one for another. That is the world of perception.
Some of that "grittiness" comes from processing, "Digital Artifacts" that build up at low bit rates. If one is heaping on a noise gate, hi-pass filter, EQ and a compressor in the digital domain at 16 bit you'll have a lot of artifacts on your track.
This is why I believe whole heartedly that we should be recording our work in 24 bit. Unless you're asked not to for an audition.
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