Posted by Mike Rivers on 04/22/06 12:34

Romeo Rondeau wrote:

> It was the big marketing push for 24-bit on the multitrack. It's not
> necessary in most cases. 16-bits are more than fine for most things at the
> multitrack level. At the two-track, things are different, you have reverb
> trails to contend with there...

You don't have reverb tails coming into your mics? ;)

I think that the most important contribution of 24-bit recording is
that it (eventually) brought us converters that were accurate to 18
bits or so, which is really enough for practical sound sources.

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