On 3/15/07, Marty Huntzberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only effect in audacity and lame that seems to work is reducing the > audio. Why does it sound good in it's original mp3 format of 192 kbps and 44 > khz but sounds bad at 24 kbps and 22 khz? It's mainly a voice lecture.
...maybe becasue you've eliminated 87% of the data? Just a hunch. (That would sound good in a voice-specific codec at 8kHz. I don't know why you think mp3 at 24kHz would sound good). Oh, also, if you're going from stereo->mono, that's going to make an echoey environment way less intelligible. You've collapsed a 360 degree circular soundfield right into the center along with the voice. You don't get to use any of the brain's spiffy localization hardware to pick out voice from the ambient anymore, now the voice and all the noise localize to the same place. Monty _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list mp3encoder@minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
