Audio Compression Magic Personal Use Ebook

Table of Contents

Disclaimer and Copyright …………………………2
Published By: ………2
Legal Disclaimer: ..2
The Problem With Audio Products …………….4
Why I Wrote This Report ………………………….5
The Software You Need To Follow Along – It’s Free! ………………………………………6
A Little Compression Theory …………………….7
48kHz 16 bit Stereo ………………………………….7
My Compression Process for the ListFX Files ………………………………………………..8
Step One – Examine The File ……………………8
Step Two – Converting Stereo To Mono ……10
Cleaning Up The Audio Files ………………………………….13
Step Three – Normalize The Audio Levels ..13
Step Four – Filter Out The Noise Using Equalization …………………………………….16
Optional Cleanup .19
Step Five – Reduce The Bit Depth And Sample Rate ……………………………………..19
Step Six – Save To MP3 Format ………………21
Step Seven – Listen To The Compressed File ………………………………………………..24
Conclusion ……………………………………………24
Here are the steps again: …………………………………………25
About the Author ……………………………………26

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The Problem With Audio Products

Customers love audio products. Whether they are recordings of seminars and teleconferences, one-on-one interviews, or creating audio versions of print materials, a well produced audio product is a high value item. But they come with a downside.

Unlike your typical e-book, high-quality audio product can consume hundreds of megabytes of storage space. Try to deliver this to your end user and you will quickly find yourself rapidly burning through your bandwidth delivering the product and end up losing money to excess bandwidth charges or having to price your product higher to cover the additional costs (or lose customers.)

The solution to this problem is to compress your audio files until they are small enough to deliver cost effectively. However, if you don’t know what you are doing when compressing an audio file, you can end up with aweful results that make you appear like an amateur.

This report will lead you through the steps of preparing and compression audio files and show you how to create top quality results that are small enough to deliver cost effectively.