Recording settings

[vicious]

ok i know people here have volunteered to make the video and .flac bootlegs of the inland invasion stream but i have put my name forward to stay up into the early hours of the morning to provide you all with audio as i record it

i'm testing out my software and need help on the recording settings

i need to know which setting i would get the best quality from.

in "bit rate kbps" i have a choice of a number of choices ranging from 32 to 320

and in "channel mode" i have a choice of: "Stereo", "Joint stereo" and "Mono"

i just would like to know which settings would provide maximum quality if it makes a difference at all

any help would be apreciated because it is approaching fast

[santana]

For bitrate, higher is better. 320 is near-CD quality.

Choose stereo sound for true stereo. Mono is 1-channel sound. Joint Stereo is actually just 2 mono tracks- 1 left, and 1 right.

[vicious]

thanks alot man

i'll change the settings now and try it out

[Almost Famous]

320 KPBS mp3 would be the best bet, unless you can get lossless (APE, SHN, FLAC, WAV)

And use Stereo.

[vicious]

320 KPBS mp3 would be the best bet, unless you can get lossless (APE, SHN, FLAC, WAV)

And use Stereo.

i can get lossless but it'd take me too long to upload and ruin me for bandwith

i plan on uploading the first few songs before the show even finishes anyway so mp3s will be quicker

otherwise i'd get no sleep and there's a gig on the next day i may go to

[highvoltage]

Well, there's not much point recording it losslessly, as the stream won't be encoded in anything above 64kbps (that would be my guess-timate). If you were to record that lossessly, you'd just be wasting your time and bandwidth, and many people wouldn't be able to download it.