

Q: “If my final song is going to be in 44.1KHz, 16bit, why should it be recorded at a higher sample rate and bit resolution?”Ī: Changing the sample rate from a high sample rate to a lower sample rate (for example: 96KHz to 44.1KHz) can slightly modify your final recording. (for example, 8 bits will result a sample with only 8 decimal numbers) Audio CD QualityĪll Audio CD‘s are formated at 44.1KHz, 16bit. The bit depth determines the number of decimals in the sample which determines the accuracy of the sampling. The sample rate can be anywhere from 8KHz (Kilohertz – 8,000 times per second) up to 192KHz. That’s where we get the term: sample rate. In digital audio, the sound is being sampled X amount of times in a second. Almost every modern recording studio uses digital audio recording techniques for tracking their projects as opposed to analog audio tracking (digital recording became the norm in the early 80’s).
