Difference between 24 bit and 32 bit recording.
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- KVRAF
- 6740 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from sheffield, england
No: the signal from the ADC is 24-bit. You can either record this at 24-bit and let Tracktion convert to 32-bit to mix, or you can record it at 32-bit to start with. Sound quality should be the same either way..
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- KVRist
- 125 posts since 31 May, 2004
Just to be clear, here's how I envisioned the process of recording an input signal:platinumears wrote:No: the signal from the ADC is 24-bit. You can either record this at 24-bit and let Tracktion convert to 32-bit to mix, or you can record it at 32-bit to start with. Sound quality should be the same either way..
audio device -> 32-bit mixing engine -> disk
In that scenario, the 24-bit signal coming out of the audio device is converted to a 32-bit signal to be processed by the mixing engine. It is then converted to whatever bit-depth the user specifies before writing to disk -- in this case, 24-bit.
Are you saying that this is not the case, and that the signal does not go through the 32-bit mixing engine? If so, at what point does the signal get converted to the final recorded bit-depth? That is, what happens if my audio device is outputting a 24-bit signal, but I'm recording a 16-bit file?