Abstract : This work investigates the problem of signal recovery from undersampled noisy sub-Gaussian measurements under the assumption of a synthesis-based sparsity model. Solving the l1-synthesis basis pursuit allows to simultaneously estimate a coefficient representation as well as the sought-for signal. However, due to linear dependencies within redundant dictionary atoms it might be impossible to identify a specific representation vector, although the actual signal is still successfully recovered. We study both estimation problems from a non-uniform, signal-dependent perspective. By utilizing results from linear inverse problems and convex geometry, we identify the sampling rate describing the phase transition of both formulations, and propose a “tight” estimated upper-bound. This is a joint work with Maximilian März (TU Berlin), Jonas Kahn and Pierre Weiss (CNRS, Toulouse).