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Question for station engineers regarding audio bitrate

chriscollins said:
You would be suprised how many young production people save everything as mp3, thinking it sounds better. I had to have a class at my stations explaining that everything should be a pcm wav...
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Yes, that's exactly what I'm seen here as well... What happens is that a commercial for example, will start to sound awful because it was the same audio that was re-compressed over and over again, every time some made a small edit, changed an ending or compressed a WAV file to send over e-mail, not knowing (and not hearing) it was actually an MP3 in a "previous life".


Regards,
Goran Tomas
 
Well, at least we're not still using mini-disc. Several years ago, we'd get an mp3, then someone would dub it to a mini-disc and take it from studio to studio, redubbing into Digilinks with their strange compression scheme. I note that some network commercials sound like they've been around the lossy compression block a few times.
 
Goran Tomas said:
chriscollins said:
You would be suprised how many young production people save everything as mp3, thinking it sounds better. I had to have a class at my stations explaining that everything should be a pcm wav...
Click to expand...

Yes, that's exactly what I'm seen here as well... What happens is that a commercial for example, will start to sound awful because it was the same audio that was re-compressed over and over again, every time some made a small edit, changed an ending or compressed a WAV file to send over e-mail, not knowing (and not hearing) it was actually an MP3 in a "previous life".


Regards,
Goran Tomas
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Goran, you hit the nail on the head. Exactly what they were doing. I had one genius that when faced with an opportunity to download music would PICK the mp3 over the wav, then load the mp3 in Audition, convert it to wav and save it for the automation system.
 
Equaiized phone lines!
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I ordered an equalized line to a site about 5 years ago. The phone company (AT&T) struggled with the EQ for days. The line just would EQ like their procedure said it should. I finally asked to help and we went "off procedure". Had the line EQ correct within an hour.

Now days, when you want an equalized line, the phone company wants to sell you a digital line with their codecs on each end.

That's the way it is in this part of the world.

As to MP3 spots...I've had the same experience with jocks who think the quality is better than wav. Some of the stuff that comes down the network, via satellite is just awful. Codec crash!
 
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