Jeffrey Kane wrote: > Perhaps my understanding is faulty; I'd always thought processing should be > done at a higher resolution if possible to minimize adverse effects on the > signal and preserve as much resolution as possible. Applying certain effects > to 16 bit audio if editing in 16 bit resolution could result in loss of > resolution could it not? "Resolution" is an odd word here which does not apply in any definition I know. 16-bit resolution gives better than 90 db signal-to-noise ratio. As said before, a cassette tape is unlikely to offer as much as 60 db SNR; ideally, it can get up to about 64. That still leaves some 30 db for processing, a factor of 30. One could do so much processing that the sound would be degraded, but it is extremely unlikely in practice. A really dramatic change of equalization could inspire capturing more than 16 bits, but that's about the only case I can think of. Mike -- [log in to unmask] http://www.mrichter.com/