help with sound

[brown29]

Hi, I currently own a copy of adobe audition 1.5 which is just the same as cool edit pro and im just wondering what the best kbps to save at is.

Currently im saving the audio files as 160 kbps, 44100hz stereo mp3

But there are:

96 kbps
192 kbps

and then it lists all the way up to 320kbps

Which is the best to use and why? Please bear in mind that the audio is not cd quality and is ripped from audio tapes.

Any help would be good. Thanks

 

[turpieaj]

Pesonally I prefer 192 kps as I think that gives you the even balance of sound quality/file size. At 320kps you might as not convert from .wav LOL.

 

[ilovepiano]

I normally do mine at 256Kbps, but if you're only ripping from a tape, there's probably not a lot of point going above 192. But I suppose it depends on the quality of the tape to start with. If it's a 100th generation copy you'd probably not notice a difference if you did it at 64Kbps