Any #music I care about, I own in a #lossless format. This is why going forward, my own music will be mixed and mastered in higher than CD quality.
Ideally, this means 192 kHz/24-bit or even 32-bit float all the time.
Realistically, this means as high as my hardware can physically handle on any given project. So at least 96 kHz/24-bit recording in most cases, and mixes and masters processed at 192 kHz before being sampled down to CD or streaming quality, which still usually makes a difference.
Despite the debate about whether listening to #music at particularly high sample rates has diminishing returns, #mixing and #mastering at the highest sample rate possible still has benefits, especially for time-based processing effects such as delay (which I use a lot of)
It makes sense, since the master version is higher quality, so the best source possible gives even lossy formats like mp3 a better chance.
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Even if it's impossible to upsample the actual #recording (yeah, if you record in 44.1kHz, you can't magically add the detail to make it 96kHz or 192kHz), but your effects/processing plugins at least have a better clarity in the final product.
This also applies if you use #MIDI #instruments that have the capability for higher sample rates. For example, in #LogicProX the #Alchemy #synth has a Quality selector that can be set to Ultra.
Erika Autumn