MP3 Advantage

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Re: MP3 Advantage

Post by robinhood1701 » Sun May 09, 2010 7:25 pm

Plastic disc's,
i remember them as well koz,
think i still have some in the loft,
used to browse them at the market in Sherwood Forest,
Yes, really

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Re: MP3 Advantage

Post by robinhood1701 » Thu May 13, 2010 7:46 pm

Trebor,
Tried a recording @ 32000khz, here is the graph,
honorable man chart.JPG
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then i tried deleting one half of the recording,
Audio Track, Split Stereo Track, then click "X"

But then i only get the left channel in my headphones, even when converted to mp3,
But then when read your post again, and did it right, it worked,
But you seem to get more in the left channel,
Think i prefer the dual mono,

When i recorded this track originally, i set the Input Level Slider to 0.3, so that the loudest sounds just touched 1.0 or -1.0 on the wave form, is that right?
Does it cut down distortion?

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Re: MP3 Advantage

Post by Trebor » Thu May 13, 2010 11:08 pm

robinhood1701 wrote:But you seem to get more in the left channel,
Think i prefer the dual mono,
If more sound is coming from one side on a mono track check the Left-Right slider is in the middle ("Pan: Centre") ...
Left-Right slider.png
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Like you mentioned previously 44100Hz is the norm and perhaps that would be the best format just in case some of the (more modern) comedy shows use the whole frequency range. 48000Hz is excessive and will produce files which are bigger than necessary without any improvement in quality.

There should be no audible difference between mono and "dual mono".(Check the Left-Right slider is in the centre).
The file size will be halved going from "dual mono" to mono without any loss of quality.

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