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| Thread ID: 101070 | 2009-06-30 12:36:00 | Any audio experts out there? Question on .wav files, and audio editing | Chikara (5139) | Press F1 |
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| 787537 | 2009-07-03 08:40:00 | One related question: I also have a live concert recorded and it's already in a wav form in my laptop. The problem is when it was recorded the bass setting is too high so now if I play it sometime the sound can be distorted (cracking). Is there anyway to fix it? |
wallarro (11242) | ||
| 787538 | 2009-07-03 08:49:00 | Yep my sample rate is 44100Hz. I just tried after work today to use 32 bit, but it says my soundcard isn't capable of recording in 32bit, so I guess I'm stuck with 16bit unless I get a new soundcard. I'm still confused about the benefit of 32bit though, if CD quality is 16bit, what would be higher quality than that?? If it's good enough for professional CD's to be 16bit, would a home amateur really notice any difference recording at 32bit??? |
Chikara (5139) | ||
| 787539 | 2009-07-03 09:00:00 | One related question: I also have a live concert recorded and it's already in a wav form in my laptop. The problem is when it was recorded the bass setting is too high so now if I play it sometime the sound can be distorted (cracking). Is there anyway to fix it? It may be possible to run an equaliser over it to reduce the bass a bit and see if that makes a difference. Most audio editing programs have equalisers of some sort, try reducing the bass/lower frequencies and see if it improves it. (Make sure you only edit a copy until you know you're happy with the results!) Audio editors can do pretty good jobs at cleaning audio up, but it does depend on how bad the original recording is, if it's too bad it may be unfixable but it's worth trying... If you don't have an audio editing program, try Audacity (free). I use Goldwave which costs, but I think they both do a similar job |
Chikara (5139) | ||
| 787540 | 2009-07-03 09:50:00 | 16 bit is the standard for CD quality audio which is sufficient as it closely resembles the original source; 32 bit I think would/could be used for DVD mastering and mixing/synthesizer software applications (which would sound great on high end home stereo theater/DJ systems) - i.e. using 32 bit for mixing (or rather muxing/demuxing) to attain improved audio to accompany the video. Other avenues for 32 bit would be plugins for streaming shockwave audio/video games and perhaps audio streaming media centre software such as Boxee (www.boxee.tv) and others. Then again there is also the "super CD format (www.timefordvd.com)" to contend with anyway, for even more refined/superior audio with sampling rates about 60 x faster than the CD standard rate of 44100 HZ. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 787541 | 2009-07-04 02:46:00 | You could also store your audio as flac (en.wikipedia.org). It's a lossless compressed audio format, so it won't give you as small a file as mp3 but it will be a lot better than .wav. | ad_267 (6193) | ||
| 787542 | 2009-07-05 00:51:00 | You should use Razorlame. Its a handy program to convert your wav files into mp3s www.dors.de | Mr Wetzyl (362) | ||
| 787543 | 2009-07-05 01:20:00 | You should use Razorlame. Its a handy program to convert your wav files into mp3s www.dors.de Thanks, yep I can convert into MP3 if I want, but like I said in my first post I don't want to use MP3 or any lossy file types, as I don't want to lose any quality from the originals. |
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