Hm. Well, as far as I know wma is also a compressed file format, but it's
one I never use so I can't say much about it..used to have bad experiences
with them so I've just avoided them ever since.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Miles" <emowarr...@googlemail.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: Another GoldWave Question - Problem with File Quality
Hi. Thanks for the response. File is a .WMA file, as that's the
original format of the vocals. The music was originally a .wav file,
but when I mixed this in it didn't pose any problems, and the hiss to
which I referred is most noticeable when there is no noise at all so
I'm sure that this hasn't caused a problem. I tried saving the .WMA
file as both a .MP3 and a .WAV file to see if it made a difference but
it didn't do anything.
All the best, Danny
On 1/12/12, JM Casey <crystallo...@ca.inter.net> wrote:
Hey Danny. There are probably others more experienced than I who can
provide
some possible answers, but I do know that editing and re-saving
frequently
should not affect the quality of your file, unless you save in MP3
format,
in which case you might lose some quality each time. Your processor would
do
all the work during the actual editing, and not the saving process, so if
as
you say the sound was fine before you did your final save, that shouldn't
be
an issue either.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Miles" <emowarr...@googlemail.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:17 PM
Subject: Another GoldWave Question - Problem with File Quality
Hi All. Thanks so much for your fantastically helpful responses on my
licensing question. I haven't yet moved to the new laptop, but I'm
having a bit of trouble on the old one.
For the past week I've been editing together a podcast. I finished it
yesterday and, prior to saving it, everything was fine. I wasn't
aware of changing anything within the file content after the point at
which I checked it, but when I opened it today to listen to it all the
way through I found that parts of the vocals were distorted and there
was a hiss present which hadn't been there before (not a permanent one
like one which comes from recording, but a temporary one which sounds
a bit like a radio being tuned in or wind blowing around a big house
... but obviously quieter). With sighted assistance I was able to
observe that there may be some issue with the stereo mix, but I've
tried every possible combination of 0% and 100% on the four channel
options and none of them have brought a perfect result (although a
couple certainly improved it a bit). I've tried hiss removal etc, and
even some of the equaliser options, but none of them have taken the
file back to what it was before.
Presuming that the intermittent distortion and strange background
noise aren't caused by any changes within the file, I'm wondering what
else might have caused this? For example, can continually
editing/re-saving a file affect the quality of the output? I have
done this sort of thing before so don't believe that this is the case
but thought it was worth asking. My stronger suspicion is that the
lack of speed of my processor (it's a Celeron) may have lead to a poor
quality saving of the file, which would also explain why some parts of
the file are unharmed. Would this be a likely/possible reason for my
problem? If there's something which I haven't yet thought of, any
other suggestions would also be appreciated.
As always any help will be very gratefully received, as this work took
me a good length of time to produce and I don't have the original
files so would have to record it all again.
Cheers, Danny
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