Having listened to your sample, aside from *alot* of clipping, that audio should reduce to 22kHz mono very nicely. It's a nice clear recording.
I did a quick declip/channel merge with postfish, downsample with sox and encoded it with lame and it came out sounding fine-- at least as good as the 'good' sample you referenced. So... what are you actually doing? Don't spare the details. Are you encoding as a stereo 24kbpbs file by accident? Monty _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list mp3encoder@minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder