Recording - Audacity vs. Total Recorder

[scottycelt]

aaah but do you have analogue ears ?

We'll have no earism on this forum, thank you very much, Mr GG ....

[MrGongGong]

I really don't know what your statement meant anyway ?

ALL recorded music is electronic
ALL sound played through loudspeakers or headphones is analogue

and this IS digital

http://www.ryojiikeda.com/

until the speakers move

[scottycelt]

I really don't know what your statement meant anyway ?

ALL recorded music is electronic
ALL sound played through loudspeakers or headphones is analogue

and this IS digital

http://www.ryojiikeda.com/

until the speakers move

Blind us with meaningless 'science' if you must, Mr GG, but I (and others) are simply trying to find out from knowledgeable forum members like yourself whether we should record in digital or analogue format, and invariably there has been a deafening silence or an irrelevant/diversionary response from those who claim to have experience in the industry.

Contributors to Wiki seem to understand well enough and have come to much the same conclusion as myself ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_analog_and_digital_recording

[Stunsworth]

I (and others) are simply trying to find out from knowledgeable forum members like yourself whether we should record in digital or analogue format

My instinct is to say that you should record the digital feed not the analogue one. If you record the analogue feed the signal has gone from lossy digital to analogue and back to (potentially) lossy digital. This seems to have the possibility of introducing coding errors in the output. Whether they can be heard or not is another matter, but my instinctive feeling once again is that it's possible if you have a revealing system.

When I've recorded a digital stream in the past I've always saved it in a lossless format to avoid recoding errors.

[amateur51]

I have searched the internet to discover whether analogue stereo is considered inferior to digital and can't find a definitive answer. It (the analogue) certainly sounds impressive enough to my ears.

Forgive me scotty, but isn't that your answer?

[scottycelt]

My instinct is to say that you should record the digital feed not the analogue one. If you record the analogue feed the signal has gone from lossy digital to analogue and back to (potentially) lossy digital. This seems to have the possibility of introducing coding errors in the output. Whether they can be heard or not is another matter, but my instinctive feeling once again is that it's possible if you have a revealing system.

When I've recorded a digital stream in the past I've always saved it in a lossless format to avoid recoding errors.

Thank you, Steve, that sounds (!) logical and I always record in a lossless format anyway as it obviously seems the safest bet?. Mind you, as far as images are concerned my eyes cannot tell the difference in quality between, say, BMP and JPEG, but others tell me they can ...

[scottycelt]

Forgive me scotty, but isn't that your answer?

I'm possibly looking for someone to put a comforting arm around my shoulder to tell me I might actually be right, Ams ... don't get the wrong idea, though.

[amateur51]

I'm possibly looking for someone to put a comforting arm around my shoulder to tell me I might actually be right, Ams ... don't get the wrong idea, though.

Oh don't you worry your wee bonnet, scotty I've always had the right idea about you

[Stunsworth]

Mind you, as far as images are concerned my eyes cannot tell the difference in quality between, say, BMP and JPEG, but others tell me they can ...

The problem with Jpegs really comes when you try to manipulate the image. If you have an area with very subtle changes in colour - a blue sky for example - it's possible to introduce colour banding quite easily if you adjust the contrast. Jpegs are 8 bit images, 16 bit Tiffs or RAW is a better option.

[OldTechie]

ALL recorded music is electronic

Not quite - http://www.stokowski.org/1917-1924%2...Recordings.htm



I guess that orchestra layout is audio compression

[amateur51]

Not quite - http://www.stokowski.org/1917-1924%2...Recordings.htm



I guess that orchestra layout is audio compression

[MrGongGong]

Not quite - http://www.stokowski.org/1917-1924%2...Recordings.htm



I guess that orchestra layout is audio compression

Good point