

Audacity is located under Language & Literature, and Audition is located under Com Arts. Depending on the file types you are using, you can use either Audacity or Adobe Audition. So, the end product will be crisp, even as an MP3.You may need to convert an audio file to another format for various reasons (e.g., to use as voicemail message, to transfer to an MP3 player).

whittling a small file down even smaller. Once you’re done producing them, export to MP3, but you’ll then be compressing a rich file vs. But, if you want to make the enhancements that will help your podcast be revered for quality content AND production, it’s hard to beat the 44100, 16-bit WAV files. So, if you’re editing an audio file, but not applying any audio processing to improve the audio, MP3 is just fine. If you’re trying to solve their problems, but they just can’t get past the background hiss, you’re that much further away from taking care of them, and leading them into a relationship with you. And why do we care? Because if you’re doing a podcast, you should be solving people’s problems. You can magically reduce that hiss, make the “S” sound less painful, sweeten the voice so it sounds warm and inviting. If you have a high resolution, you can fix problems, the kind of problems you really want to fix. More information gives an opportunity for more clarity. Like an image with fewer pixels, audio with few audio samples can only sound so good, especially when our processing is using those samples and trying to amplify or repair. However, if you have the entire audio buffet available to you (WAV file), you now have a solid foundation from which to work and improve the audio quality. There is an expression that is fitting here: “it’s like putting lipstick on a pig.” You can’t take a compressed audio file that was poorly recorded and run it through post-production for it to come out the other side like the audio equivalent of the Mona Lisa. In the audio world, that means there is less information for the audio processing to work with, and a smaller opportunity for you to correct or adjust your audio to sound amazing. This is becoming fairly obvious, yes? When something is compressed we lose resolution.
