Well some tutorial videos on youtube...
... so I trusted that they knew what they were talking about, and went with it.
... cause they said to.
... if their is a reason for 96khz.
THERE, not "their" is a reason. One is directional, the other is possessive. For the love of...
You have such a great track record of adhering to all sorts of advice
just because this one guy told you or because you saw it on teh interwebz. Further, you rarely understand
why that person or that tutorial may have suggested such a thing (if they even know themselves) which you once again prove with your last (grammatically incorrect) statement. Let me summarize: "These tutorials said to do it. So I did it, 'cause they sounded like they knew what they were talking about. And i figured I'd do it if
there was a reason to do it."
Do you have any realistic clue about why 96kHz recording would be used? If you don't actually know the reason, then you need to figure it out. You seem to do whatever any random schmuck tells you to do, but you don't take the time to figure out the reasoning behind it. Then you come here and make some ridiculous post and this whole process starts again.
Here's the deal, and PAY ATTENTION: choice of sample rate is determined by post-production needs.
Are you recording for a CD? Use 44.1kHz, which is the native sample rate of CD audio.
For film/video? Use 48kHz for dialog, which is the native sample rate for digital video. Anything more is overkill. If you are recording FX or other sources that will be subject to heavy manipulation in post, such as pitch and time alteration,
then 96kHz is advisable. Why? Starting with twice as many samples allows time stretching to greater amounts (and other heavy alterations) without artifacting, since in the end it all ends up at 48kHz anyway.
Using 96kHz for everything results in unnecessarily large files... wasted space. You aren't going to gain anything by up-converting all your music and pre-recorded effects, and may end up costing quality there in a couple generations of conversion. Keep it simple, and know when 96kHz makes since (hint: it isn't often).
Side note: there are lots of crap tutorials on YouTube. With the DSLR revolution, everyone and their third cousin's stepbrother is a "filmmaker." Worse, now that they all have this new-found hobby and the ability to shoot shallow DOF (which is the only qualifier for professional cinematography, right?), they all start trying to figure out filmmaking and end up getting a lot of bad advice, but they don't know it's bad advice. Then, they decide to share all their bad advice in a tutorial that they know will get lots of YT views because there are lots of other wannabes out there looking for bad advice. It's a vicious cycle.
