I believe that when they did they original sampling, they did a little investigating and came to the conclusion that the bandwidth of the original tape recordings didn't merit a higher sampling rate (i.e there was basically nothing on the mellotron master tapes higher than 11 kHz. To be honest I find this a little hard to believe, but that's what they said...indeed the blurb about it may still be on www.mellotron.com for all the world to read...)
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, john barrick <barrickjohn262@...> wrote:
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> It's surprising that it's that low - I worked in television for about 20
> years and we were doing most of our audio at 44 K.
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:23 PM, tron400 <tron400@...> wrote:
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> > ∗∗
> >
> >
> > But does batch-converting 16 bit to 24 bit improve the sound? I would think
> > that resampling would be necessary. Also the Pinder samples were sampled at
> > 22,050 Hz. There's lots of room for improvement there.
> >
> > Bernie
> >
> > --
> john barrick
>
> ∗Leo got it right the first time∗
> ∗then he added a second pickup and got it righter∗
>