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الخميس، 6 نوفمبر 2014

Don't Get Hung Up on the Sample Rate of Your Gear

If you're my age, you'll remember the release of CD technology. The introduction of it was revolutionary for both me and my friends. I remember buying my first CD's and listening to them whilst quietly smiling inside due to the omission of record scratches that could normally be heard in every song! Every time I listened back to the CD it was the same as the first time - with no degradation and there was no way I could wear it out!
I went CD crazy
!
I wanted to know EVERYTHING about them. How the information was read off the disc by a laser in the CD player? How did the error correction work? What was the sample rate? etc. and I remember when my mum was going out asking her to try and find out what she could when she was passing the library - it wasn't just the case of nipping onto the Internet as it is now.
Since those days, technology has moved on and whilst the humble music CD is still with us, sample rates of 44.1kHz have been surpassed by the sample rates of our DAWs. In this day and age it's easy to record at higher values than 44.1KHz and whilst you might think that having a higher sample rate is instantly going to make your recordings better- don't overcomplicate it and think that it's the be all and end all to better songs!
Put simply - it's not just to do with the quality of the recording it's also to do with the quality of the song!
It's not about how good your gear is...
Sometimes we hide behind technology and get bogged down in technical talk. Topics like sample rates, A/D conversion, having the best and highest quality possible pre-amps with the lowest noise margin, the best microphones, etc. - you know how it goes.
You need to know how to use your gear
Look at the music recorded in the 60′s - for instance, The Beatles. They were limited by their gear, but they knew how to use what they had. Even though the production sounded great back then, it's nowhere near the quality of stuff being released today.
But one of the reasons they're still popular is because of the quality of the songs!
By focussing on the technical aspects, there's a danger of getting bogged down. Rather than learning the gear we have we make excuses; convincing ourselves that we need better gear. whereas the bottom line is, we should be getting better with what we've got whilst focussing on the quality of the songs we're writing and producing in the here and now!
When you look back on the songs, you wrote in 10 years time when sample rate and bit depth (including most of the equipment you're using now) will undoubtedly be far surpassed, it'll be the quality of songs you wrote that will shine through and how you used the gear you had. Similar to The Beatles situation - or you could get stuck behind the techno talk, waiting for that day when you've got the ultimate gear set-up... the chances are you won't have your songs to look back on...
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