Vegas digital converter compared

bevross wrote on 3/6/2007, 3:35 PM
Found an interesting webpage for comparing how well various software packages do at converting audio from 96KHz to 44.1KHz. Vegas 7 doesn't look too good! Compare, e.g., with Adobe Audition 1.5. Sort of supports a sense I had that I didn't want to use Vegas for serious processing. Sound Forge (which I don't use) looks better. URL:
Sample rate conversion software comparisons

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H2000 wrote on 3/6/2007, 9:12 PM
must be a bad link?

anyway, i wouldn't use it for sample rate convertion. I like r8brain from voxengo.com
farss wrote on 3/6/2007, 10:03 PM
I wonder if they thought to set audio resampling to Best, the default is Good. I don't know how much better Best is but it does do a lot more processing.

Bob.
bevross wrote on 3/7/2007, 7:11 AM
link works for me? anyway it's:
http://src.infinitewave.ca/

r8brain came out pretty well.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 3/7/2007, 11:41 AM
That they haven't specified what settings does not look good for a test that on the surface looks comprehensive.


geoff
Chienworks wrote on 3/7/2007, 3:39 PM
I've got pretty poor ears for an audio guy, and even i notice a substantial difference between good and best. Since processing time really isn't much of an issue anymore i've got the resampling setting nailed on best all the time.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 3/7/2007, 11:34 PM
The results look so horrifyingly awful, even on most high-end software (except a noteable few), I think I would like to know a bit more about exactly what is actually being represented here, especially the tweak at the end of the 'sweep'. Other than that, glad to see all the crap is -120dB or so.

But in the context of the majoity 'messy' ones, I find the couple of 'immaculate' ones a little hard to believe.

Apart from the vaguaries above, I always knew there was a reason I record at 44k1 !

geoff
R0cky wrote on 3/8/2007, 9:13 AM
Just what is the "sweep" representing? Frequency is on the vert axis. What is it on the horiz. axis? Harmonic number?