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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > Is 24 or 32 bit depth audio worth it for LP commentary?
 
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SupSuper
Apr 8, 2009

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Xirix posted:

As silly as it may sound, I don't think I understood what stereo/mono recording was. The Blue Snowball is a mono mic?... So recording in stereo or mono will come out exactly the same, regardless of having two commentatators?

As for the bit depth, thanks for the clarification, I've definitely been overkill on the audio quality for absolutely no reason.
Stereo audio has two audio tracks, one for the Left and one for the Right channel. Mono audio only has one stream. For example your recorded game audio will be Stereo since games have audio positioning. However your mic will obviously only record in Mono, since there's no point in having audio positioning then, and converting it to Stereo just doubles the filesize for no reason.

However, a lot of editing software will mess up combining Stereo audio (eg. game audio) with Mono audio (eg. mic audio), and you'll end up with your commentary only coming out of one channel, which is especially annoying for headphone users. So if you can spare the space, you might wanna keep everything Stereo just to be safe.

SupSuper fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Oct 7, 2014

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