“You want to be working in at least 24-bit or higher when recording and mixing.”Īdvanced Audio Coding, or AAC files (also known as MPEG-4 AAC), take up very little space and are good for streaming, especially over mobile devices. ![]() “MP3 files can only be up to 16-bit, which is not what you want to be working in,” says producer, mixer, and engineer Gus Berry. MP3 is fine for the consumer, since most of the sound it drops is inaudible, but that’s not the case when it comes to bit depth. MP3 files work on most devices, and the files can be as small as one-tenth the size of lossless files. MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III) is the most popular of the lossy formats. Artists and engineers who send audio files back and forth prefer not to use lossy formats, because the files degrade every time they’re exported. They don’t decompress back to their original file size, so they end up smaller, and some sound waves are lost. ![]() Lossy audio formats lose data in the transmission.
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