VS-1880 GIGANTIC file

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I recorded a 6 tracks on my VS-1880; two sequenced drum tracks, a rhythm guitar, bass, a lead guitar section, and a "spoken word" vocal. The piece is about 3:35 in duration.

I used the mastering tools to mix the tracks down to stereo, and I burned an Audio CD. I ripped the CD to my hard drive, and the file is 36.1 MB!! I think it should be closer to 3.6MB, no?

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When I was using the mastering tools, the manual says that I can select the tracks I want to master by holding the stop button and the the status button of the tracks I want to master, and that the status lights for those tracks will light up green. I did this, but ALL the status buttons stayed lit green. Did I inadvertently end up mastering ALL the tracks(blank ones included)?

I know I did something wrong, but I don't know what. Can anyone please help me out?
 
Good Bob said:
the file is 36.1 MB!! I think it should be closer to 3.6MB, no?
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Actually, 36.1 MB sounds about right for a WAV file of that length at 16/44.1. You can expect pretty close to 10 MB a minute for files of this quality.

3.6 MB is closer to the size of the file converted to an mp3 at 128.

I can't tell whether or not you did anything wrong in the mastering stage as I have never used this unit.


Hope this helps

Stray
 
Any other song I've done on this machine is much smaller in size. I'm pretty sure I did something incorrectly.

Thanks for the input, though--I do appreciate it.
 
Good Bob said:
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When I was using the mastering tools, the manual says that I can select the tracks I want to master by holding the stop button and the the status button of the tracks I want to master, and that the status lights for those tracks will light up green. I did this, but ALL the status buttons stayed lit green. Did I inadvertently end up mastering ALL the tracks(blank ones included)?
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That has nothing to do with the mastering. It's a standard shortcut to get a track in play mode. Instead of pressing the status button many times to get it to light green, you press stop+the status button. The same thing if you want to get it to record mode, you can press rec+the status button instead of pressing the status button many times.

And about the wav size.... Just insert the number of minutes into this formula:

(44100*4*minutes*60) /(1024*1024) = amount of megs.

/Anders
 
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Good Bob said:
Any other song I've done on this machine is much smaller in size. I'm pretty sure I did something incorrectly.

Thanks for the input, though--I do appreciate it.
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Sure, but you don't have to take my word on this. Rip a song from a professionally mastered CD. You will find that 16/44.1 takes up about 10 MB of space per minute.

If your file size was smaller than 10 MB per minute on any other song you've done then I would say on those occasions you were doing something wrong.

Unless, that is, you chose to master at a bit rate less than 16 (which would be undesirable), although I'm not sure why/if the 1880 would offer that as an option as it doesn't make any sense.

I think you're confusing WAVs and mp3.

Stray
 
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stray411 said:
I think you're confusing WAVs and mp3
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Ya learn something new every day! I looked at all the shorter songs and they were MP3s.

Thanks.

I'm still a little confused about the stop/status button, because that didn't seem to work the way I thought it would. But when it comes to all this VS-1880, I'm pretty confused in general anyway (I guess that's blatantly obvious).


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Are WAV files considered to be the better way to go from a quality perspective?
 
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Are WAV files considered to be the better way to go from a quality perspective?
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Yes. But not for streaming from the Internet. A wave file is too large (At this time anyway) for streaming over the Internet. Thats why they came up with Mp3s. Wma, etc: The Wave files are compressed down to speed up streaming.
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