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Original Message 1/5 04-Apr-06 @ 12:29 AM Edit: 04-Apr-06 | 03:48 AM - bit depth and sample rate

danktle

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So when exporting/rendering tracks, do you find it best to use the highest samplerate and bit depth possible and then convert to MP3? Do certain samplerates and/or bit depths (well, I guess there's only two real possibilities for bit depth...) work better than others when they are encoded? Just curious to what everyone else's experience is.

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Message 2/5 04-Apr-06 @ 09:11 AM - RE: bit depth and sample rate

Rags .aka. Welder

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I guess it depends on the encoder. My best guess is to use source material with the target sample rate (so that the mp3 encoder does not convert the sample rate - I generally don't trust encoders inbuilt sample rate convertors) but use maximum bit depth available. (The data will anyway be converted into the frequency domain, so any "dithering" you might add will be gone).

So 44 Khz / 32 bit. My encoder is winlame.

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Message 3/5 05-Apr-06 @ 04:45 AM - RE: bit depth and sample rate

psylichon

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I think it really depends on your encoder. And your song. MP3 compression is kinda voodoo in that you really never quite know what you're gonna get. If you really wanna be thorough about it, and know for sure that you are choosing the best output parameters, ya gotta export several versions, encode them, and A/B. Once you get a "feel" for your codec afer several mixes, it will become more intuitive and perhaps unnecessary to actually A/B.

Of course I've never done this because it's usually not important enough to me. If it sounds aight, it is aight.

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Message 4/5 05-Apr-06 @ 03:31 PM - RE: bit depth and sample rate

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I use the wavelab for mine, the one on the 7161/DT server is LAME command line version.. LAME is sposed to be very good but you need to work out the commands for it after which it's very good and does batch stuff fantastic.. not for noobs tho

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Message 5/5 05-Apr-06 @ 04:02 PM - RE: bit depth and sample rate

Rags .aka. Welder

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Somehow I have managed to create an errorneous config (called "DT preset"

) in the xml config file, and since then I can select all the encoding parameters from a nice menu, without editing that ugly xml.

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