I'm a newbie to digital recording, but not a newbie to music or
electronics. So that being said, I'm looking for a simple DAW setup.
I'll be using a laptop to record solo guitar for the most part. I'll
either be going firewire or usb, but I digress.... In deciding on
gear, since I'll mainly be doing solo direct in guitar work I want
good quality audio. That seems fairly easy to do since at best it will
be two inputs of stereo. But since CD quality has to be 44.1khz at 16
bits, what do you experienced people hear in terms of quality when
recording at 24 bit 96khz? Since you'll have to dither that down to CD
quality do you still prefer the higher sampling? Does the dithering
process alter the sound quality? Enquiring mind wants to know.....and
thanks for the replies......


Ron B