047 - 32 Bit Float Recording Is Going to Change Everything

19/02/2021 7 min Episodio 47

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Episode Synopsis

With 32bit Float recorders you'll never have to set the gain again. Never have to worry about clipping. Or having guests that speak to quietly. You don't even have to monitor your recorder. Because you can fix everything in post-production. Sound to good to be true? Join me and find out!

To dig into the mathematics behind 32bit float technology check out this site: https://www.sounddevices.com/32-bit-float-files-explained/
PRODUCTION NOTES
Recording Mic: Zoom LMF-2 Lavalier mic
Recording device : Zoom F2 32 bit float Field Recorder
Recording location: Standing into my closet
Recording format: WAV (32 bit float mono)
Sample rate: 44100Hz
Editing app: Audacity
Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com
Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz
I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.
Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps .m4a file