44.1 kHz or 48 kHz?

[El°HYM]

You will need some High Quality DAC to capture the true essence of lo-fidelity.

[flugel45]

You will need some High Quality DAC to capture the true essence of lo-fidelity.

Bottom line, too many home-studio "artists" look for any extra fidelity to magically make up for their sheer lack of talent.

[El°HYM]

[Reticular]

I still like 44.1 more for completely unknown reason, i did swaped some interfaces before and could not tell anything so who knows who got this or that, if one can feel some change than it is valid, otherwise i´d forget about it.

[El°HYM]

While your internal sample-rate might be 44.1 kHz, your Audio Interface will still run at 96 or 192 kHz. I see no need to downgrade the Interface to 44.1 kHz in these days.

[Reticular]

While your internal sample-rate might be 44.1 kHz, your Audio Interface will still run at 96 or 192 kHz. I see no need to downgrade the Interface to 44.1 kHz in these days.

Mine does not, but i will check if that is true for the newest ones, mine has 24.576 crystals specked for 48khz, but i agree on 96k, it sounds a touch bit airy.

[Essent]

I don't see the need for over-sampling for FX like delay, chorus and compressor given the nature of how they work. In fact, I can't come up with one where it would benefit from over-sampling.

[mjolnir]

I can't really hear any difference and so I feel like either one is fine.
If you're hearing a big difference then maybe your upsampling/downsampling algorithms are the wrong ones or are faulty (and that shouldn't be).
The state of the art is pretty impressive. We have nothing to worry about anymore.

Most people want bass-heavy music anyhow, not treble-heavy music.
If you need more highs, you can still boost in EQ. Digital EQ is really advanced these days and can sound really good.
It was harder during the analog days, but those days are long gone.

I used to work at only 48 kHz so that nobody's computer converters would have to change modes for my music after watching YouTube videos, but really it doesn't matter... nearly every system can play both 48 kHz and 44.1 kHz just fine.

Sometimes even music at 32 kHz can sound good if it's mostly just bass sounds. (It's rare but it used to happen).

[jtsterays]

Just use 48khz and call it a day, so you don't need to care about the video & upsampling shenanigans. Also some gear (e.g interfaces) only support 48khz and above. Only a tad higher CPU & filesize, but peace of mind. Don't waste your brainpower on this useless stuff.

[El°HYM]

[jamcat]

Sage Audio guy in the above video acknowledges the advantages of higher sample rates for minimizing aliasing, but says you might as well do that through oversampling. the problem with that is he fails to take into account that not all plugins do oversampling. He's also not taking into consideration the cumulative effects of repetitive up and down sampling.

The only disadvantage to recording at higher sample rates that he actually provided was that after 40 tracks, the latency incurred from increasing the audio buffer gets too high, making subsequent overdubs more difficult. But that is easily remedied by rendering out a mixdown and/or disabling some of those 40 tracks. You certainly don't need all of those tracks in real-time to record an overdub.