Anyone else burning all their Vinyl to WAV files and to their iTunes?

[johnkol]

I'd love to see you and Poxy have a go at a double blind test of your golden ears.

Golden ears... ha! I've ruptured my left ear twice, second time it took about two years for my hearing acuity to return completely. And even if that incident did no permanent damage, I'm sure the numerous rock concerts that I used to attend without any hearing protection have ensured that my auditory faculties are at least moderately compromised.

 

[johnkol]

She's actually the Director of Music Recording and Scoring at Skywalker Sound. She's notoriously incredible at engineering.

Oops, had never heard of the name; I presume no relationship to legendary producer Hugh Jones (Bauhaus, Echo & the Bunnymen, Modern English, etc)?

How do they use a 24/48 recording? It can only fit on DVD-Audio, and that format has even less market penetration than SACD. Dithering/resampling down to 16/44.1 for CD release has its own set of problems. So is it just for archival purposes?

 

[GAJ]

It's a real bummer to find an album cover with no record inside!

 

[Poxy]

How do they use a 24/48 recording? It can only fit on DVD-Audio, and that format has even less market penetration than SACD. Dithering/resampling down to 16/44.1 for CD release has its own set of problems. So is it just for archival purposes?

Most of the work done there is for film soundtracks, and Dolby D encoders like 48k. I would guess that most commercial music there is recorded at 88.2k (it converts to 44.1 better than 96)

And yes, archival is the reason...and why not anyway? It's not as if storage is a problem. People tend not to record at 192 because it start to limit the ProTools functionality, and it's largely seen as unnecessary except for perhaps "live to two track" sessions (I don't know if people even do that anymore!)