by bobbias » Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:29 am
Unless you are recording directly from a microphone, there is absolutely no point in dealing with anything above 44.1khz. I used 96khz as a reference, but the same sort of thing applies to anything over 44.1khz. If you are referring to a recording already on your computer, or a CD, then you are shit out of luck, because converting from 44.1khz to anything above it will NOT save the sounds you'd like to hear.
If you are recording these sounds on your computer, you need to know what sort of capabilities your sound card has, because not everything can record at anything higher than 44.1khz, which would mean you're shit out of luck for recording too. Nowadays most cards can record at that, but not everyone has new cards.
In any case, unless you are recording the tubular bells yourself, there's no way you're going to hear those extra sounds, which, by the way, are out of the human hearing range. Anything that 48k and above records that is beyond what 44.1k can handle CAN'T BE HEARD BY THE HUMAN EAR.
If you're concerned with how certain things sound in different codecs, like comparing AAC, MP3, and OGG Vorbis, I cound understand talking about certain frequencies being lost and distorted in things like tubular bells and such, because "Smearing" in the high end is a common issue that CODECS have. Unfortunately, an MP3 of tubular bells in 44.1k will sound the same as one in 48k if they are both at the same bitrate. If you have the CD and it sounds normal on the CD, but it sounds like crap in an MP3, at 44.1k, then it's not the sample rate or the bit rate. It's the fact that when MP3 compresses sound, it throws out certain things that our brain can't quite understand properly. Unfortunately, stuff like tubular bells get distorted fairly badly. Try saving it in FLAC or some other lossless codec.
"At thirty to sixty inches per second, in a recording studio, not much is missed!"
What the hell does that mean? I spent a semester in our highschool studio and I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.