Another Zoom H5 question - recording format
 

I was recording at 96hz/24 bit and changed to 48/24bit after I read that for recording music 96hz isn't necessary. Is this true?

In general, that is true... you don't need 96KHz sampling. But some processing can introduce audible artifacts if your plugins don't internally oversample to a rate higher than 44.1 or so.

Here's a great video explaining it all, well worth 30 minutes:

I always record at 24 bits 48k. I do mostly sound for video, so 48k is the standard there. If I want 44.1k, software does the conversion quite nicely.

I record at 24 bits, but I always normalize and dither down to 16 bits for distribution. Recording at 24 bits gives you the headroom you need to make a good 16 bit end recording.

https://productionadvice.co.uk/high-...c-sound-worse/

Likely a bad idea as mentioned in link above.

I usually record 24/88.

Ok thanks guys.