Article: Audio Recording Primer Part 2: Recording Media

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[gmgraves]

Thank you, Chris, for posting the second of this five-part article. One caveat to readers; this series was written over a number of years, and some of the equipment mentioned above has since been superseded or made obsolete (like the Hi-MD Minidisc system) by the passage of time. It is best to view equipment mentions as the type of equipment “needed“ to successfully do amateur or semi-pro location recording, rather than being recommendations for specific brands and models. Hope you all enjoy this series.

[DavidL]

Very informative article. A couple of points on using a computer for recording. I started recording using Firewire on a Mac tower many years ago; first direct and then via a RME Fireface 400 interface. Very happy with the resulting recordings. I much regretted the demise of Firewire input on macs but solved the problem by buying a Belkin Express Dock which has a thunderbolt input and Firewire, USB3 and thunderbolt outputs. The RME firewire devices are excellent; their ADCs are very good - the ADI-2 Pro in particular.

[audiobomber]

The two-channel Korg DS-DAC-10R bears mentioning. Compact, powered via laptop USB, records up to 192/24 PCM and 2X DSD. Available on Amazon for $400.

 

I used one to record my LP collection. Audiogate is great for live recording but VinylStudio is better suited to ripping vinyl.

 

https://www.korg.com/caen/products/audio/ds_dac_10r/

[bbosler]

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. Unfortunately, the current USB standard, USB 2.0, is bandwidth limited and even two channels of 24-bit, 96 KHz digital audio is a stretch.

 

The standard for pro audio interfaces with USB 2.0 is pretty much 24/192. My Antelope Eclipse and their new Amari as well as others do 32/384. 

 

when I digitize my vinyl with Pure Vinyl software the Antelope does A to D at 24/192, sends it to the Mac Mini for processing, and the Mini sends it back to the Antelope DAC at 24/192  with a bit of latency that doesn't matter in this situation. Point is USB 2.0 can easily handle it

 

how did you come up with 24/96 is a stretch?

[The Computer Audiophile]

5 minutes ago, bbosler said:

 

The standard for pro audio interfaces with USB 2.0 is pretty much 24/192. My Antelope Eclipse and their new Amari as well as others do 32/384. 

 

when I digitize my vinyl with Pure Vinyl software the Antelope does A to D at 24/192, sends it to the Mac Mini for processing, and the Mini sends it back to the Antelope DAC at 24/192  with a bit of latency that doesn't matter in this situation. Point is USB 2.0 can easily handle it

 

how did you come up with 24/96 is a stretch?

At the time of this writing I believe 24/96 was the limitation but it wasn't because of bandwidth. 

[R1200CL]

I wonder if Sony ever will make SACD format free ?

 

It can’t think they earn much in licensing fees ...