What Bitrate do you record at?

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What Bitrate do you record at?

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What bitrate do you set Cool Edit (or whatever other program you use) to record at? I set mine at like 32000 and then compress it after editing... just wondering what you guys use
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The Dreaming Tree wrote:What bitrate do you set Cool Edit (or whatever other program you use) to record at? I set mine at like 32000 and then compress it after editing... just wondering what you guys use
thats not actually the bitrate, thats the frequency

the bitrate of my fostex is 16, and my frequency is 44100
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i record at 16, frequency = 44100 (that's the frequency used on CD's and I burn my stuff to CD's...don't really feel like resampling)
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ahh i didnt even realize that... all i knew was the higher ones used more disk space so thats what i assumed it was.
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I record at 16, save it as a large ass wave file then I use my prog to make it into an mp3 and I set the bit rate to 128-192 depending on importance.
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I record at 24 bit, 96000 samples per second. This allows me to do funky editing stuff without worrying about reduction of quality. It is a whole lot easier to downsample than it is to clean up a shoddy recording.

Oh, this is with SB Audigy Plaitnum w/ KX driver package, and CEP 2.0.
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[quote="Locarius"]I record at 24 bit, 96000 samples per second. This allows me to do funky editing stuff without worrying about reduction of quality. quote]

True, but normally you can get away with doing it at 16. Plus if you burn it to a cd you can only do 16 anyway, but I guess for editing purposes, it might be nice to hear it at 24 bit.
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