Just thought I had to share this with you guys:
I'm as everyone here surely knows a gearslut, and have woved my life to analog mixing etc. (those of you who don't know this do not spend enough time here as I do
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now I've been toying with the idear of recording my analog mixes directly into 24bit 192Khz... until now I've not really done it (using 44.1Khz), but after trying it recently, I stumbled on a weird phenomenon... When I recorded my analog mix faster than 44.1 Khz, there seemed to be more noise introduced, and at 192Khz it simply went insane! the noisefloor raised from about -75db to a staggering -44db!!! ... I found that this noisefloor raised proportionaly with the samplerate, so 96Khz gave a raise to the noisefloor also, though not as much.
My brain stopped trying to figure out the reason, and I wrote a mail to E-Mu who make the 1212M soundcard I'm using for recording... and after three or four mails, I finaly found the reason for the phenomenon:
Using an analog mixer, you also have "higher than human ear" frequencies (way above 44.1Khz), and when you start recording in 192Khz, you let a lot of supersonic frequency material through the recording process, and sometimes this noise can be quite loud!
I started on a journey to find WHAT in my studio that is the culprit... turning off all gear, I had a beutiful noisefloor at about -70dB at 192Khz... and it stayed there with all the rest of the equipment exept for ONE! ... the Elektron Machinedrum!
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Just wanted to share the experience... maybe some of you could end up in a like situation... just don't forget that supersonic frequency! (this has no relevance for plugin sluts I guess).