[Mike Rivers]

On Mar 26, 1:30 pm, "alice" wrote:

....for this project I'm taking a song off off of an audio CD
(for a friend), these are live recordings, all one long track, so part
of the reason to do this is just to extract the song into one track.

In that case there's no reason to fool with anything other than 16-
bit.

How does one chagne the bit rate any ways? I can see where to do it in
the initial recording setup, but in the save options I don't see it.

There are often some options for reducing the word length (like from
24- to 16-bit. These would involve dithering, and there are usually
some options for what kind of dither ot use. But since you can't put
data (other than zeros) where there's no data, you aren't likely to
find options for changing a 16-bit file to 24-bit. Generally if you've
combining files in a project, you can always use files that are
shorter than the project's word length, but if you were to try to
import a 24-bit file into a 16-bit project, it would complain, or at
least ask how you want to deal with it.

If you're starting a project and plan to have it mastered, it's
probably best these days to use 24-bit. Everyone can handle that, and
conversion to 16-bit can (as it should) be done at the very last step
before making the CD master.