Upcoming 32-bit float Audio Interfaces in 2024

[k brown]

I hear ya', but over here in Europe we rarely have shootings in recording studios

I was being 'arch'.

 

[zamproject]

I was being 'arch'.

ask Silvia Massy and TOOL




"it's on the clic pretty good"

 

[fazer]

This is where a masselec transient limiter rules. It’s like tape as Brian mentioned, the hysteresis of the tape eats the transient when you elevate the record level. But also management of your signal through mic choice and position is key. (I’m thinking live music recording.) I remember switching to a ribbon mic on a female voice during a recording session to minimize sibilant voice problems. This was a dialogue session on a tape series about Psychology. The condenser was not good on her voice.

 

[Gold]

I was thinking of the 1812 Overture, which is why I said cannon and not gun.

Complaining about the dynamic range of digital recording is pretty strange to me. There is way more than can be used on a finished recording.

 

[Wavelength]

Gold is correct this is just a way of sending or receiving the data. In USB land you can setup the enumeration to support 32 Float, interger PCM etc... and then there is underground stuff for DSD like DoP. But most DSD is just using 32bit interger in a PCM slot to do DSD as DoP is a bit of a pain in the a** and requires 2x the sample rate.
All of these require some DSP, Processor or FPGA to convert the PCM or DSD signal to Float 32. This has been around in macOS since 10.6.8 when Apple supported High Speed USB UAC version 2 protocol.
Both AKM and ESS have 32 bit ADC now, but since the signal to noise ratio is still below 144dB (24bits) that only can contribute to nuance which people do seem to hear.
On playback both AKM and ESS are getting real close to 144dB with their 32bit DAC chips.
But really in the end why are we striving for that when we all know and have some special piece of gear that to us sounds better and probably what like ~16bit signal to noise???