Question about Wavelab, Bit Resolution, and Sample Rate

manus · Post by **manus** » Jan 26 2006 09:56 pm

I would like to use Wavelab to edit and clean up some of the MP3's that I have on my pc. When doing so, what are the best settings such as bit rate? Also, could someone explain Sample Rate to me?

Any links would help also.

thanks

FishnChips · Post by **FishnChips** » Jan 27 2006 11:06 am

http://arts.ucsc.edu/EMS/Music/tech_bac ... es_16.html

Gives a pretty good description.

ßéñjåmmiñ · Post by **ßéñjåmmiñ** » Jan 28 2006 01:18 am

simple explanation...

16bit = cd quality

24bit = dvd quality

16bit/44.1khz = cd quality

24bit/48khz = dvd quality

24bit/96khz = HiDef audio quality [will soon be standard]

when editing mp3 you want to stay at whatever sample/bit rate the mp3 was encoded in or you will start to get bad artifacts... no matter which direction you go with it... if you have original wav file then you can downsample as much as your taste in quality allows... but again upsampling is not an option for it to sound good... the only way to go up is to export the song from cubase/fruity/sonar...etc at a higher rate to begin with...