I run an 'amateur' level recording studio. I will record at different levels depending on the content, mainly using 192 etc for acoustic sessions whilst staying at around 48 etc for computer based music. Downgrading all this music to 44.1/16 can often be devastating, as the artist has heard the playback in the studio and then hears it on a CD or MP3 player.
However, for everyday background music MP3/CD level is fine, in fact for traveling including in cars, there are so many external factors involved that MP3/CD quality fits the bill perfectly, but in the relative peace and quiet of your own home if you had the funds and the original recordings warranted it, then wouldn't it be brilliant to be able to listen at the quality recorded in the studio in the first place?
We would all love it if the music we liked could be played live in our front rooms (some people do exactly that - oh we do that too, preferring to see music live rather than stay at home and listen to recordings....).
What we are trying to do is to be able to put to disc a rendition as close as possible to the original which was never possible with CDs and some say is only just acceptable with standards like DVD-A and SACD. Put it another way, if recording mechanisms did not exist, we would all be spending small fortunes seeing our favorite performers so ultimately ALL recordings offer a relatively cheap and convenient way of hearing them.
P.S. I do have 1000's of MP3s/CDs and various ipods in the same way as Mr 1930s man had cylinders and 78s.... as for sheet music...... we won't go there today.
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I run an 'amateur' level recording studio. I will record at different levels depending on the content, mainly using 192 etc for acoustic sessions whilst staying at around 48 etc for computer based music. Downgrading all this music to 44.1/16 can often be devastating, as the artist has heard the playback in the studio and then hears it on a CD or MP3 player.
However, for everyday background music MP3/CD level is fine, in fact for traveling including in cars, there are so many external factors involved that MP3/CD quality fits the bill perfectly, but in the relative peace and quiet of your own home if you had the funds and the original recordings warranted it, then wouldn't it be brilliant to be able to listen at the quality recorded in the studio in the first place?
We would all love it if the music we liked could be played live in our front rooms (some people do exactly that - oh we do that too, preferring to see music live rather than stay at home and listen to recordings....).
What we are trying to do is to be able to put to disc a rendition as close as possible to the original which was never possible with CDs and some say is only just acceptable with standards like DVD-A and SACD. Put it another way, if recording mechanisms did not exist, we would all be spending small fortunes seeing our favorite performers so ultimately ALL recordings offer a relatively cheap and convenient way of hearing them.
P.S. I do have 1000's of MP3s/CDs and various ipods in the same way as Mr 1930s man had cylinders and 78s.... as for sheet music...... we won't go there today.