Everything sounds good except for the part where you say that "Higher sample rates = greater accuracy" which "means better digital representation". This is obviously wrong if you look at what the Nyquist--Shannon Theorem says: "An analog signal waveform may be uniquely reconstructed, WITHOUT ERROR, from samples taken at equal time intervals. THE SAMPLING RATE MUST BE EQUAL TO, OR GREATER THAN, TWICE THE HIGHEST FREQUENCY COMPONENT IN THE ANALOG SIGNAL."
The human ear has an average range from 20Hz - 20KHz, so anything above/below this range is moot since we can't hear it. IOW, sampling at 44.1 KHz covers all the frequencies below 22.05 KHz, which is above our hearing range, and is thus sufficient for humans. Those examples you provide (a recording sampled at 22 KHz and then at 8 KHz) will not sound as good because you're limiting the bandwith and taking information we CAN hear out of the recordings.
Pay attention to the high frequencies on each example. The lower the sample rate the less high frequencies you capture, and thus it sounds lo-fi. But the lows are still there. Once you go over the highest frequency we can hear (~20 KHz), everything else is moot because we can't hear it (unless you're making music for dolphins that is).
Now, if you do hear a difference between 44.1 KHz and higher sampling rates then it's due to low quality converters (i.e. jitter, bad filters, etc).
Good converters should have indistinguishable quality between sample rates at or above 44.1 KHz. Bit depth, on the other hand, does contribute to sound quality because the higher it is the lower the noise floor becomes (up to a point determined by the analog components of the converters of course). Higher bit depths also provide more dynamic steps to our music so we can capture more subtleties that were not possible (or hard to achieve) in 16 bit recording. But that's another story. Good Luck
Fantastic
MimicIsaac 3 months ago
44.1kHz - 4:52; 22kHz - 5:17; 8kHz - 5:37
bbrriiaann9922 4 months ago 5
I'm curious why THIS vid is available on max 360p and not in hd... :p
DJEvsE 7 months ago
great video. thanks very much. and this man also sounds like ferris bueller which is mint.
tamcocbichdong 2 years ago 2
Nice :) Thanks
middleeaster 3 years ago
Everything sounds good except for the part where you say that "Higher sample rates = greater accuracy" which "means better digital representation". This is obviously wrong if you look at what the Nyquist--Shannon Theorem says: "An analog signal waveform may be uniquely reconstructed, WITHOUT ERROR, from samples taken at equal time intervals. THE SAMPLING RATE MUST BE EQUAL TO, OR GREATER THAN, TWICE THE HIGHEST FREQUENCY COMPONENT IN THE ANALOG SIGNAL."
metalgear11111 3 years ago
The human ear has an average range from 20Hz - 20KHz, so anything above/below this range is moot since we can't hear it. IOW, sampling at 44.1 KHz covers all the frequencies below 22.05 KHz, which is above our hearing range, and is thus sufficient for humans. Those examples you provide (a recording sampled at 22 KHz and then at 8 KHz) will not sound as good because you're limiting the bandwith and taking information we CAN hear out of the recordings.
metalgear11111 3 years ago
Pay attention to the high frequencies on each example. The lower the sample rate the less high frequencies you capture, and thus it sounds lo-fi. But the lows are still there. Once you go over the highest frequency we can hear (~20 KHz), everything else is moot because we can't hear it (unless you're making music for dolphins that is).
Now, if you do hear a difference between 44.1 KHz and higher sampling rates then it's due to low quality converters (i.e. jitter, bad filters, etc).
metalgear11111 3 years ago
Good converters should have indistinguishable quality between sample rates at or above 44.1 KHz. Bit depth, on the other hand, does contribute to sound quality because the higher it is the lower the noise floor becomes (up to a point determined by the analog components of the converters of course). Higher bit depths also provide more dynamic steps to our music so we can capture more subtleties that were not possible (or hard to achieve) in 16 bit recording. But that's another story. Good Luck
metalgear11111 3 years ago
i wish ive been rickrolled instead.
delon85 3 years ago
XORS!
mikedotorg 3 years ago
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if u havent realised it by now, the guy that uploaded this vid if my idol :D
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tamironcup 3 years ago
is*
tamironcup 3 years ago
yes, i really had nothing better to do....
if u were wondering that is....
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shooterz 3 years ago