audio recording question

[Klampert]

Currenty I am recording our sermons weekly with audacity. (i will be using adobe soundbooth within the month)
it records great but I need some help because they are for web streaming audio.

What settings should I be recording with. bitrate hz...etc.?

And how do I take my too high quality records that are 100 meg files and reduce them to 10-20 meg files?

[dtpuga]

Kalmpert,

We do this each week. What we have found to be easiest is to record on a CD, which then is ready for duplication and archives. Then we jsut put the disk in iTunes and combine the tracks and rip a low-res version of the sermon for the interweb.

We do 64Kbs Stereo with Variable Bit Rate enabled, cut the freqs below 10Hz.

That produces a nice quality sound for spoken word and very manageable file sizes. A 30 minute sermon is anorud 7MB.

If you continue to use Audacity or whatever to record directly you should still be able to export a track and do the same thing in iTunes.

Hope this helps.
Travis

[Klampert]

wow thanks...
I have done that now but it seems my initial file from audacity is too big...40 min becomes 100 meg...its at 44100 rate should it be 22100?
once compressed in Mp3 at 64k its 20 mg file..

we had them up on our blog for a long time and the guy who was doing it for us left the church...I want to get them all back up of course...

any suggestions on that stuff?

[twc_admin]

Hey Joel,
20MB for a 40+ minute sermon is not an abnormal file size - that's about right!

[Klampert]

I know but before this guy left we had them at around 7 mb