Anybody here in recording industry?

[dhuebert]

Pardon the digression. I am using Griffin Technologies Final Vinyl to record some music to CD that a band I was in in the early 80's recorded on cassette. It needs some compression due to over-large dynamic range. I don't know how to use the compressor, is there somewhere I can learn about compressors on line?

Don

[parabellum]

My last post was a response to your edited post btw.


In your opinion what is the optimal headroom that still minimizes waste of bandwidth?

[K.C.]

don't know how to use the compressor, is there somewhere I can learn about compressors on line?
Don

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=how+to+use+an+audio+compressor&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[K.C.]

In your opinion what is the optimal headroom that still minimizes waste of bandwidth?

Waste bandwidth ? Not sure what you mean by that.

What you do want to do is preserve the best use of the bit depth. In other words if you're recording at 24 bit but then smashing the audio down into mud you waste the dynamics you recorded in the first place. You end up with a 24 bit file that could be described with 12 bits.