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offline brokephones from Londontario on 2005-04-19 15:43 [#01570828]
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What is the usual sample Rate/Format of a commercial
recording? I ask this because I am trying to make lossless
rips of my vinyl and want to know what are the best
parameters to export the wav/aiff file under before running
it through the flac encoder.
Also, should I export as wav or aiff?

Thanks in advance.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-04-19 15:45 [#01570829]
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i too would like to know


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2005-04-19 15:47 [#01570830]
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no i dont..not yet


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2005-04-19 15:47 [#01570831]
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I have always been under the impression that cds are 16bit
44100khz


 

offline brokephones from Londontario on 2005-04-19 15:53 [#01570835]
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According to Wikipedia, its 16-bit PCM with a sampling rate
of 44.1khz. Go figure wiki would have it.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-04-19 15:55 [#01570837]
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yes.


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2005-04-19 15:56 [#01570840]
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happy flacing then, sir


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-04-19 15:56 [#01570841]
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i'm under the impression that wav = aiff (it's just the
difference between windows and mac) in terms of quality. is
this true or am i mistaken?


 

offline xceque on 2005-04-19 15:59 [#01570844]
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The information so far provided is correct. Export to wav,
16 bit PCM wave, 44.1Mhz. Use the flac encoder to encode at
whatever level you want. Hurrah!


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2005-04-19 16:00 [#01570845]
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they are equivalent, but not strictly exclusive to either
platforms. mac does both wav and aiff, and i guess pc does
too. although wav is mainly used with pc as aiff is on macs


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2005-04-19 16:02 [#01570848]
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Some say that vinyl can have higher frequencies than 22 kHz
but I doubt it. It's just messy fucking squiggles in
plastic. It's not witchcraft.

In any case, if you record the vinyls at 44 kHz your sound
card will pass the audio through a lowpass filter before
encoding it so you don't have to worry about aliasing. And
very few humans (almost none) can hear above 20 kHz
anyways.

Record them at 44 kHz and 24 bit, then dither them to 16 bit
in Wavelab (with the Waves L2 plugin if you've got it). That
should cut the mustard.


 

offline brokephones from Londontario on 2005-04-19 16:08 [#01570857]
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The program I am using to record is Audacity. Under the
quality settings there are 2 options that I am uncertain
of.
Real time dither: None\Rectangle\Triangle\Shaped
High quality dither: None\Rectangle\Triangle\Shaped

Does dithering lower the sound quality? If I am supposed to
use the dither options, what "shape" should I go with?



 

offline Combo from Sex on 2005-04-19 16:09 [#01570862]
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make sure that it's a winyl you've never listened to before,
in case it has already eroded a bit


 

offline brokephones from Londontario on 2005-04-19 16:10 [#01570864]
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Thanks, I'll remember that!


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-04-19 16:12 [#01570868]
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I wouldn't use audacity to record anything.


 

offline xceque on 2005-04-19 16:13 [#01570870]
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Only use grade-a recyclable winyl with euphonium excluder
attachment!


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2005-04-19 16:25 [#01570910]
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"make sure that it's a winyl you've never listened to
before,
in case it has already eroded a bit"

hahah.


 


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