Starcraft wrote:Is there any real downgrade of sound quality if I were to record mp3's being played from my laptop using a mbox 2 spdif out into the mpc1k spdif in? Is it better that I record mp3's digitally or using analog? Is there anyone out there recording mp3/wav samples using serato/vinyl? If so would this be similar quality to recording mp3's directly from a laptop using a 1/8 to rca to mpc1k? I'm all about working fast and I'm tired of converting mp3's to wav "16bit" changing the name to 16 characters than chopping it on the computer and transfering to the mpc. Any suggestions or advice would help! thanks!
Any real downgrade of quality? Well the most damage has likely been done when you converted the audio to .mp3 in the first place, unless you have some really high bitrate... even then you've lost some of the signal.
Recording analogue will always introduce some amount of line level noise... regardless of your sample source. Recording digital will always faithfully reproduce the digital sound output to input digitally as it skips the digital->analogue and analogue->digital converters.
Converting an MP3 to a WAV will not restore any of the sound fidelity, it just means that you can digitally transfer that sound to the native MPC format.
As far as advice... other than learning what it means to do all the different things that you are talking about... I can't really say 'this is the best way to record a sample' because there really isn't a best way. Just reasons to do things differently.
