Thanks, Dan.
You saved me DAYS of work on this one issue. Man! There'll be a little some=
thing extra in your check next week.
That Sony D50 that Danny has is lookin' really good at this point, after Or=
yoki's comment about the PMD661's mics being designed for indoor work. Gott=
a have good on-board "wilderness" mics.
--- In Dan Dugan <> wrote:
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> > This audio stuff has got me under the rug. I had no idea that I'd ever =
try to produce an audio product. The problem I face is producing a finished=
20-minute mp3 file at very high quality. I don't know if I need a machine =
that records only .wav format or also mp3. From what I understand about fil=
e size, seems to me that a 20-minute .wav would be massive. I'd need to rec=
ord 3-4 such 20-minute files in the recorder per session and then use somet=
hing like Audacity to convert them to mp3. Maybe the Marantz is the way to =
go?
>
> Always record in .wav. MP3 is a distribution medium. After your productio=
n is completely finished and bounced or mixed down to a master .wav file, t=
hen make an MP3 from that for distribution. An MP3 bit rate of 192K or high=
er will do for "very high quality."
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> .wav files are big, but just be glad you're not doing video!
>
> -Dan
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