How good is your recording?

Recording music onto your iPod is a compromise between quality and space. The default on iTunes is set at 128kps, and having done lots of demonstrations I have found that many people use this default standard.

Using the Sonic Soundscape I was a bit alarmed when I started hearing distorted music, booming bass, and some of the high frequency music could not be heard through all of the hubub.

I have been back through my cd's and re-recorded a lot of material using the Apple “lossless” format, which seems to be 800 Kps, and although the file sizes are larger, the quality of sound is measurably improved, and all the features of the Sonic Soundscape can be heard to best effect. This could be things such as hearing the audience clap on a live recording to bring you closer to “being there”. Alternatively it could be hearing the microphone being turned on and Robert Plant breathing on “Going to California”. Little things I know, but it does let you enjoy the music a little more.