4. Re: artifact in spectrogram created using Raven

["Mitch Hill" wa1ykn]

On 7/17/2012 11:15 AM, Dan Dugan wrote:
>> Dan, what bit rate would you consider acceptable for mp3 recording?
> I did a blind listening test at an NSS Workshop, and 256K bits/sec was in=
distinguishable from the original on a dawn chorus. Pushing lower rates dep=
ends on the material and that requires trial and error. There's an expensiv=
e plug-in available now, Sonnox/Fraunhofer Pro Codec, that lets you monitor=
 in real time switching between original and various codecs and data rates.=
 Would be great for setting up a web site with audio, you could encode diff=
erent clips at different rates depending on how they sounded or looked on a=
 spectrogram.
>

As a follow up, yesterday after posting, I went to my PMD661 recorder to
see what I keep it set to and saw that its using 320 Kbs...  I think my
LS-11 is set to 256 Kbs, in any case its the highest setting on each...

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