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Post by teamwhiskers on Dec 7, 2008 8:15:46 GMT -6
What is the best format to record in?
Im using audacity and whatever I was using makes a huge file that somehow got saved as a winamp file? Roughly 6 minutes to 28 Megs just for a guitar solo seems very high doesnt it?
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Post by midnightwinestrat on Dec 7, 2008 11:07:05 GMT -6
That is what I use, not sure if mine is the latest version now or not, but there used to be a separate file you had to download, and then you could save the files to MP3. I will take a look at their website and see if I can find it...
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Post by Rusty on Dec 7, 2008 13:47:15 GMT -6
Every track will record to a seperate wav file,and the do get to be large files. I know when I do several tracks on a song,it can be 2-300 mb in size,that will all mix into one file maybe 50mb in size.You can then convert to an mp3 which will only be 3-4mb. There are some free converters,I'll post a link in a few,but the raw recording will usually always be a wav file. www.download.com/Free-WAV-to-MP3-Converter/3000-2140_4-10851477.html?tag=mncol
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Post by hargravej on Feb 4, 2009 17:59:44 GMT -6
usually programs save them as a wave file..which is the best to track to ....usually. After that, Depends on what you want to do with it. If you are just posting stuff on the web or myspace or whatever....mp3 or mp4 is all good. If you are wanting to continue to do work on it (mixing, mastering etc.) .wav or .aiff (apple) is usually the best. its also good to do as high of a bit and sample rate as possible. the industry stantard today is usually 88.2k or44.1 sample and a 24 or 16 bit. Just depends on software, your ad/da converters and whatnot.
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Post by thethirddegree3 on Nov 11, 2009 12:09:42 GMT -6
Use .wav files because they are not compressed. Files like .mp3, .wma, etc., use compression schemes where bit data are lost.
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