Sampling with EII.. What kind of recorder?
2008-03-03 by markolaukka
As everyone(?) know here, the EII has a fixed sampling rate of 27.777kHz and that E-mu put in a steep filter of 135db/oct to get rid of any frequencies above that (27.777/2) to avoid input aliasing. As a result the sampled sound lose much of it high frequencies and there's not much you can do about it.. or is there? Well as some of you might know there are tricks to remedy this, and one way would be to pre-record the sound on a media like a tape-recorder. Now, to sample the pre-recorded sound into EII you should playback the sound at half of the speed you recorded it, e.g. record it at a speed of 15cm/sec and then play it back at 7.5cm/sec. The downside of all this is that the sound takes up twice as much memory. Well, on to my question: Am I bound to use an analog tape-recorder for this solution or does there exist a digital recorder with variable playback speed? I'm thinking of the quality of the samples that I put into EII and I want it to be as high as possible. Or are there some reel to reel recorders that are good enough as far as s/n- ratio concern, that this isn't much of a problem? Thanks, Marko