WAV to MP3 Compressions Questions

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Hello all!

I finally got my Delta 1010LT up and running at 130% thanks to Ocnor.

Just a quick note to anyone that may want to run it on an older PIII-833 system. If you find that recoding 8 tracks at once creates an issue with dropouts during the recording (or that the system just stops recording after a couple of minutes), simply pick up an IDE drive with 8 MEGS of built-in cache. Make sure it is installed with an EIDE ribbon cable (not an IDE). This seemed to rectify my issues quite well. I am sure the 512 MEGS of RAM also helped the overall system out.

My question pertains to WAV --> MP3 compression. I record at the studio and then I want to bring home the WAVes for final mixing. When you bang off about 10 songs per practice, they tend not to fit on a CD. so I basically turn them into MP3s, bring them home and then explode them back into WAV files.

My question is simple. Does squishing a WAV file into an MP3 and then exploding them back to a WAV diminish the overall quality of the file? FYI, I usually compress to either 128, 160 or 192 kbps. Would the higher resolution ratres be better than the lower ones when they are turned back into WAVes?

Please let me know and thanks again for your help!
 
In short, yes. When you compress, you lose data. Period.

You would be better off burning the wav files to multiple CDs (use as many as you need -- CD-Rs are cheap), or burning to DVD-R (more room).
 
Converting to FLAC or Monkey's Audio is another option. Both are lossless and compress the original material to around 50% of its original size.

Check out www.dbpoweramp.com for all the tools and codecs required.
 
what software are you using?
there is not much point in converting back to wav if you are in mp3 if your software supports mp3 imprting. it is already compressed and so whether it is a wav or mp3, it will have the same quality.
 
There is lossless compression and there is lossy compression. MP3s are lossy compression. You could always go with some sort of lossless compression, which should be reconstitutable into wavs without loss.
 
I believe that's what elevate was referring to above.

I use Monkeys to convert wav to ape. It works well & it's free. One of the nice things about the little executable you get is it has a plugin that let's you play 24/96 ape files in winamp without having to first convert to 16/44
 
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