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Recording with an iFP: recommended settings?
Sometimes I need to record a music lesson or part of a live performance to study later. (In this case, ethnic percussion.) I've been using a cheap cassette recorder, but now I have an iFP-780 - which seems much better suited. However, digital recording is totally new to me.
Well, for the above specific purpose, it looks like I can get away with low sample and bit-rates. But I'm curious about what experienced people recommend for this and other recording tasks. Here are a few that come to mind ...
- teacher's examples (for practice only)
- FM broadcast
- line-in from a portable CD player
- line-in from a cassette tape player
- café performance by soloist or band
For all but the first, the temptation is to go for the "best" available settings, but I suspect that with other constraints, such as quality of the source, mic placement, and ambient noise, the best settings might result in large files that don't add much.
So here's a related question, based on a familiar example - the notorious 96 Kbps limit of the UMS firmware... For what iFP recording tasks is 96 Kbps adequate, and for what tasks is it better to switch back to the IMM firmware?
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