A Cubase / mp3 question

[acidsaturation]

I'm impressed anyway that I worked that out... After spending an hour swapping cables about on my HiFi amp last night convinced I'd blown a channel, then to realise I'd knocked that balance knob had been knocked off centre I was beginning to fink I woz fick.

[RDR]

I'm impressed anyway that I worked that out... After spending an hour swapping cables about on my HiFi amp last night convinced I'd blown a channel, then to realise I'd knocked that balance knob had been knocked off centre I was beginning to fink I woz fick.

quality!

[antonbanks]

Hmmm... wasn't expecting that. In this case that's probably for the best.

The audio in question is from my radio show. It gets recorded off the internet stream at 128k. I sometimes go back and do a little editing and save the file again. Basically, I record it that low so people don't rip tracks from there.

Thanks guys!

PS- So if I've understood you correctly, if I save the audio at a higher bitrate the second time around it shouldn't get compressed much more than it already is. True?

[RDR]

if you save it at a higher bit rate it wont make any difference. You cant go back up to 256kbs quality once the original is saved at 128kbs. it will always sound like a 128kbs file unless you compress it even further to say 96kbs.

is that what you meant?

PS: no worries, we try to help if we can :)

[antonbanks]

Not exactly. I know that I'll never get better than 128k.

I meant that if I save the file to a higher bitrate than 128k the second time around then the file will get compressed less than had I saved to lower than 128k, correct?

Bear with me, I'm trying to make sure I undestand correctly...

[acidsaturation]

The file itself will be less compressed, but some of the information will have been removed during the first compression and not replaced when the file is unpacked.