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Post by Crispy on Jun 12, 2013 14:28:54 GMT
This may be a stupid question, but I am hoping that either Alex or someone else can put me on the straight and narrow. I was ripping one of my CD's to my computer using Adobe Audition 3 when I actually took notice of what was happening for a change instead of letting it do everything by default. When saving to a wav file it gave me the option to firstly choose the sample rate, the default being: 44100 Stereo 16 bit. I then noticed I could save the file at: 192000 Stereo 32 bit float. See the screen shot below: I do not have a clue what is the best option here is but I would guess @ the higher value. It then asks which wav form to use, again see the screen shot below: It gives you the option to use 6 wav formats, I never knew there was so many variants and I think the default is Windows PCM? Just for future reference can anybody tell me in layman's terms the best settings to use for sound quality. Cheers Chris
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2013 21:38:01 GMT
Hi Chris It's best to stick with the values highlighted. I haven't seen that many choices for .wav before. I would think Windows PCM .wav, but perhaps the help file may clear that up ? Sound Forge 9 gives you a couple of choices, but the right one there is called Wave (Microsoft) .wav Oversampling to 192K and 32 bit will give you a large file, and oversampling,although it may occasionally make the HF sound a little better, will often result in less "punch" at the bottom end.
Kind Regards Alex
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2013 0:32:30 GMT
Hi Chris, my 2p worth........................
Use Windows PCM (Wav) 44100 32 bit float ............................................
don't use Microsoft ADPCM it's lower quality.
Alan
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2013 1:15:03 GMT
Hi Chris, my 2p worth........................ Use Windows PCM (Wav) 44100 32 bit float ............................................ don't use Microsoft ADPCM it's lower quality. Alan Alan You will not be able to burn CDs from that. Changing the bit depth will alter the sound, but not necessarily for the better. Regards Alex P.S. FWIW, I just tried converting "California Girls to 32 bit floating using SF9, and listened to both versions using cPlay. Although not much in it, the original version had more "bounce" to it. That could also come down to added noise due to the additional processing ?
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Post by Crispy on Jun 13, 2013 8:56:06 GMT
Hi Chris It's best to stick with the values highlighted. I haven't seen that many choices for .wav before. I would think Windows PCM .wav, but perhaps the help file may clear that up ? Kind Regards Alex Thanks Alex and Alan. ???Try checking the help file Why didn't I think of that. The results below. The A‑Law and mu‑Law WAV formats (CCITT standard G.711) are common in telephony applications. These encoding formats compress the original 16‑bit audio to 8‑bit audio (for a 2:1 compression ratio). Microsoft ACM (Audio Compression Manager) is part of all 32‑bit versions of Windows. converts the file to 8 KHz, mono, 16‑bit, because that is the only format that the TrueSpeech ACM driver supports. The International Multimedia Association (IMA) flavor of ADPCM compresses 16‑bit data to 4 bits/sample (4:1) by using a different (faster) method than Microsoft ADPCM The Microsoft ADPCM format provides 4:1 compression. Files saved in this format expand automatically to 16‑bits when opened, regardless of their original resolution. For this reason, use this format with 16‑bit rather than 8‑bit files. The Microsoft Windows PCM format supports both mono and stereo files at a variety of resolutions and sample rates. It follows the RIFF (Resource Information File Format) specification and allows for extra user‑information to be embedded and saved with the file. The WAV format reproduces digital audio by using PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)—PCM doesn’t require compression and is considered a lossless format. Before you write a CD, you should verify that your CD burning device is setup correctly. Note: Audio on CDs must be 44.1kHz, 16 bit, stereo. If you insert a track with a different sample type, Adobe Audition automatically converts the audio for you. If in doubt read the destructions So Adobe audition recommends using Windows PCM 44.1 - 16 bit stereo, which is what I thought was the default setting. At least now if anybody else considers using the other formats or settings "DON'T". Thanks Again Chris
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