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May someone could explain me something:
I know if a mp3 file is played while the signal gets
recorded via audio out/in and later the recorded file also gets encoded to mp3 then there will be again a data loose caused by compression.
How is this handled from software playback and recording like recording in Cross?
Does it happen there too?
Does it matter if record in mp3 or wave format?

Thanks for the info!
Best regards
Marxon

Hey,

when you record from software output (like recording directly the master out (when dual stereo for example) you will have a smaler less of quality than recording the route back from the mixer to your computer.
it is depending on your soundcard and the mixer and so on how the quality will be.

Generall when you are playing MP3 I would prefere you to record also in MP3 (take care that you will have the same quality setted ). Wave is only bigger and will not bring back the sound which you would have if you running original wave files .

So record in good quality with MP3 and it will be enough (most people have not the ears and also the equipment to get a better sound). To get the full wave sound you need a realy good soundcard and also speakers which can play those frequences .

regards
Christian

christiankoopmann wrote:Hey,

when you record from software output (like recording directly the master out (when dual stereo for example) you will have a smaler less of quality than recording the route back from the mixer to your computer.
it is depending on your soundcard and the mixer and so on how the quality will be.

Generall when you are playing MP3 I would prefere you to record also in MP3 (take care that you will have the same quality setted ). Wave is only bigger and will not bring back the sound which you would have if you running original wave files .

So record in good quality with MP3 and it will be enough (most people have not the ears and also the equipment to get a better sound). To get the full wave sound you need a realy good soundcard and also speakers which can play those frequences .

regards
Christian

Disagreed!

Since the Audio is converted to .wav in the software I´d recommend you to record in .wav as well, it may be bigger but

1) you dont have the data-conversion going on while playing (cpu-load)
2) you still can convert it to mp3/m4.a or whatever afterwards

Another point:
Depending on your Gear, you might have a "better" sounding file when recording from your mixer.
(If you have a mixer which´s sound you really like)

Of course Chris is right when saying, the quality is better when recording internally
(like CD is better audio-quality than Vinyl, Vinyl still sounds better )

Hey,

to the CPU load, I have an P3 3Ghz HT Computer and there I can run Cross and my record software no.23 and everything is working without any problems so on a good optimised system you can record on what you want .

regards
Christian

I prefer to record in WAV, because I will always give some processing/post prod to the file before putting it back to MP3.

Support@MixVibes wrote:I prefer to record in WAV, because I will always give some processing/post prod to the file before putting it back to MP3.

Audacity ftw!

Audiobots: Normalize!

Ok thanks for your informations guys!
Now i think we need working FLAC tags in Cross even more.

Marxon