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Not really wanting to get into the "argument", but just a minor correction

Michi said:

*** I can take 16 analog tracks into Nuendo at 192/24, mix at 192/32 (no you are not 'adding data', you are preserving data the moment ***

Racerguy said:

*** Yeah, sort of. I agree that you are not "adding data." You are utilizing 32-bit floating point precision for calculations. 24-bit mantissa plus 8-bit exponent = 32-bit precision. ***

Actually, you need more than 24 bit fixed point/32-bit floating point just to "preserve data", due to quantization from an accumulation of round off errors.

In fact, arguably, you need up to double the original precision (24 bits x 2 = 48 bits, which will conveniently fit into a 64-bit floating point representation) to avoid numerical inaccuracies. And even then you may still lose accuracy in pathological situations (or if the algorithm was badly coded).

One of the advantages of analog is that you don't have to worry about these things. :-) However, I must say the benefits of digital editing outweighs the pain :-)

Of course, we'll gloss over Martin's previous claim that editing in PCM offers "infinite precision" :-)

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