Creating High-Quality Recordings in Audacity
Your starting point is the highest-quality audio files you can create. This does not necessarily mean recording at the highest possible sampling and bitrates, but using good recording techniques to produce the best-sounding recordings. As we discussed in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, a lot of factors affect the quality of your audio recordings: background noise, microphone placement, the quality of your mics, preamp, analog-to-digital converter, and the power of your computer.
Audacity supports up to 32/192 recording, so let’s see what the pros and cons are of using higher resolutions.
More Power
You need a stout CPU to handle high-resolution recording. I have one PC with an Athlon LE-1620 2.4 GHz and 4GB of ...
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