96kHz? It depends!

[robertl.]

For the last 20 years many, many, many studies have shown that no one can discern the difference between 96 kHz and 48 kHz.
Between 24 bits and 16 bits, yes some can. As for internal processing, like 32 bit instead of 24 bit it does provide almost limitless room before distortion but that’s another matter.

[floydbouma]

Please continue with the shorts!! Love them bits of knowledge from W:)

[maxgramser]

As mostly producer/sound designers, we tend to be at 48khz+ because pitching / sampling sounds better

[aZeee]

I usually sound design in the early stage of a production in 96khz, because pitching sounds amazing. When I’m done I go down to 48khz :)

[RockSolidStudios]

96khz or higher is really good if you are going to SLOW DOWN the recording like if you are doing a pitch shift on a vocal then it sounds crispy still at half speed

[Rhuggins]

Wouldnt the ideal situation be to work in the sample rate that matches what the material was recorded at, and then oversampling for nonlinear processing? This way unnecessary conversion is avoided. I always work at 96 for the most part but have always thought this would be the case

[rogercabo]

Mozart as well wrote some hits with a lower samplerate than 192khz?

[draztiqmeshaz]

I think it was you that mentioned RME stuff likes to run at 96. Ever since I heard that (wherever it was) I've been trying to figure out how to upsample the TV's light pipe stream to 96, as it is connected to the same interface as everything else, and has been setting everything to 48, in order to achieve sync lock. Are all TV's like this? Do I need a hifi streamer in the mix? Ugh. Usually I answer all my own questions, but this is a stumper

[FC-xczy]

96k is the furthest i will go. 192 is overkill

[zachshoupnotshoop]

192 kHz takes up my entire hard drive lmao