I have about 10 hrs with 20 years old interviews on tape, and now I am going to digitalize them, for broadcasting on a community radio.
I know, that I shall use wav files, but I'd appreciate good advice regarding which settings I should use when I record them.
Thanks a lot
Which quality should I use?
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waxcylinder
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Re: Which quality should I use?
I would use the Audacity default 44.1 kHz (44100) Project rate and 32-bit float Sample Format - use this throughot for capture an editing.
Then when you have your finished product export to the (default )16-bit PCM stereo WAV. I use triangular dithering for the down-sampling (the "High Quality Conversion" box) - though shaped is reckoned to be pretty good too.
Such files can be burned to a music CD or played in just about any player.
WC
Then when you have your finished product export to the (default )16-bit PCM stereo WAV. I use triangular dithering for the down-sampling (the "High Quality Conversion" box) - though shaped is reckoned to be pretty good too.
Such files can be burned to a music CD or played in just about any player.
WC
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Re: Which quality should I use?
That's how I delivered the last commercial voice job. Being obsessive, I deliver in Stereo whether or not the original was a single voice track because I know that's what the client is expecting. Once you go to a Music CD, the burning software is going to make it into a stereo track anyway.
You don't actually make "Stereo." you just double up the track and ship the same thing both left and right. Call the company. They may not care. I don't always have access to the client, so I have to cover all the bases.
Koz
You don't actually make "Stereo." you just double up the track and ship the same thing both left and right. Call the company. They may not care. I don't always have access to the client, so I have to cover all the bases.
Koz