Topic: Song Demos Recorded With PCM-D50 Internal Mics

[bilco]

I bought this unit to be a simple, intuitive alternative to using Pro Tools LE DAWs to record demos and hopefully home grown CDs of my songs.  I put together a My Space page today to have some place to post these:
http://www.myspace.com/billcolbertsongwriter
I recorded these at 24/96 and then rendered them to mp3 with Audacity on a Mac.  I think I could have run the levels hotter and I thought about normalizing, but I didn't know whether to normalize the 24/96 wave file or the mp3 file.

I aimed the Sony at ~ the 12th fret of the guitar about half way between the guitar and my mouth.  It was first thing this morning, so my fingers and voice weren't at the top of their game yet. 

I am really happy with the quality of this unit, including the mics.  Really easy to transfer the files to the ibook too.

bilco

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

Always edit the 24bit files. Much better results that way.

[bilco]

Always edit the 24bit files. Much better results that way.

If you normalize the 24 bit file do you need to take it to something like -3 to ensure that the mp3 doesn't clip when you render the wave file to the mp3, or can you normalize all the way to 0?

Thanks,
bilco