Remixing Sample Rate Problems

Gah it's happened again! Firstly it happened with the Mancini remix we did a while back, and now we have the pleasure of featuring on the B-side of Datarock's 7" vinyl single of 'I Used to Dance With Your Daddy'. Basically, we've been working at 48kHz sample rate (better than 44.1kHz) and we've stupidly assumed any mastering house worth their salt would spot the difference... evidently not.

So what we have kicking around on the commercial product and on iTunes is a track that's too slow and sounds degraded in quality.. if you've bought it.. chuck it through Wavelab to convert it to the correct sample rate - it'll sound much better. In the meantime we're suffering the embarrassment knowing there's people out there listening to it and thinking, 'what the hell kind of producers are these guys?'. Oddly though, the guys in charge of accepting the remix didn't pick up on it though. For all the hours and hours you spend polishing up the production on tracks, you have to wonder how bad the production has to get before it's not up to scratch.