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Old 05-17-2020, 08:27 PM
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Default 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?
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Old 05-17-2020, 11:13 PM
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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:
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Old 05-18-2020, 12:03 AM
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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.
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https://productionadvice.co.uk/high-...c-sound-worse/

Likely a bad idea as mentioned in link above.

I usually record 24/88.
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Ok thanks guys.
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