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RE: Hiss in My Recordings

Subject: RE: Hiss in My Recordings
From: Henry Howard <>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:36:45 -0500
You have two different numbers you are intermixing.

The 16 bit file uses twice as much data to represent the
same wave file as the 8 bit file.  The 11,025 is the sampling
frequency which means that the highest frequency you will
have in your file is 5,500+KHz.  This is the top end of a good
telephone call bandwidth.  Using 44.1 means your highest frequency
recorded is 22,000+ Hz.  This is considered the lowest "high frequency"
for good audio.  (It has been demonstrated that humans can perceive
frequencies much higher than the old 20,000 Hz, but that is a much
longer, deeper discussion for another day.)=20

At 07:51 PM 3/23/05 -0500, you wrote:

>Well, I kind of answered my own question.  I found that I could go to 11,0=
25
>with no noticeable loss in audio quality.  if I go below that, there's a
>definite loss of fidelity.




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