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Hi,

I have heard many good things about the VDAT sound quality specially for tracking, but then I realized that it only records mono. So how does it respond to the stereo tracking solution?
Is it gonna be the same results with the stereo audio source if I recorded 2 mono (L/R) to the VDAT?

Does anyone ever compare the sound quality for tracking between Samplitude8 & VDAT?

hc.

vdat sounds awfully good. yes, you could use 2 mono channels.

i would use sam for the stereo mixdown, though. why? well, because samplitude is an excellent editor/cd burner.

Thanks Garyb for the reply.

By the way, when you say 'stereo mixdown', does it mean bouncing the tracks internally or record all the tracks into stereo track?

hc.

i don't like bouncing. i seem to get an inferior result and i can't hear what is happening when i record it. i'd record from one app to the other.

It really is easy to get a stereo recording from VDAT. This works for me.

First, if you haven't already, open the VDAT Settings box and click Select Wave Editor. Tell VDAT the name and location of your favorite wave editor (I use Sound Forge 6).

Then, record the Left on 1 and the Right on 2 of the VDAT.

Click the yellow Stop button on the already stopped VDAT. The yellow button should now be flashing,

Open the Settings box, and click Edit for ch 1. Your wave editor should open and then load the file. Click Edit for ch 2. Your wave editor should load that file as well. There should be two files in your wave editor now.

In the wave editor, create a new stereo file at the same rate (for example, 24 bit, 48k) as the VDAT files. There should now be three files in your wave editor - the new one should still be completely empty.

Select all of the file for ch 1.

Copy that and paste it into the blank stereo file. The 'stereo' file should show a Left and a Right channel - but both are actually your channel 1 and should be identical.

Select all of the file for ch 2.

Copy ch 2 but don't paste - ch 2 should now be in the buffer.

(You can now close the ch 1 and ch 2 files).

Select the Right channel of the 'stereo' file.

DO NOT PASTE, this time.

Overwrite the Right channel with the buffered contents of ch 2.

You should now have a true stereo file. And there should be no degradation (or improvement) in the process.

best,

john

what is the different between stereo interleaved track & 2 mono stereo track?

hc.

the stereo track's two tracks are stuck together.