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Xirix
Jan 11, 2013
I use recordpad to record the audio for my LPs that I do with my cousin using a Blue Snowball. Since .wav format doesn't work correctly over 4GB in size I need to tell the program to record for x amount of time before stopping and making a new recording, right now we have it set at 3 hours using a 48,000 32bit uncompressed PCM setting.

But it's recently occured to me that not a lot of people I've seen with all these 'best settings for x' videos do much over 16bit audio. It's the default for Dxtory, for Vegas's sound options and might be the default for the HD-PVR (I'm unsure on this, the audio from my PVR doesn't specify the bit depth in Vegas, I record in AC3)

I could record somewhat larger .wav files if I went down to 16bit, which would be useful. There's a lot of LPers on here, what bit depth do you use for your commentary?

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Xirix
Jan 11, 2013
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.

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