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<div>I handle the recording of our sermons at my church (we use an MP3 recorder and then I transfer it to a PC) and they range from 10-30MB depending on how long the pastor preaches. I record our audio at 64kbps bit rate and 44100kHz sample rate - this is fine for just voice.</div>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Hey Bill, to answer your question about how big the recordings are. I don't have any of my project files (what audacity creates when it records) on hand as I have saved them to either mp3 or wav so I can't tell you how big those are. I do have a 2.5 hour wav file that is 1.5GB and a 1.5 hour mp3 that is 82.5MB. These were recorded at Audacity's default settings which I think is 44100Hz? With just voice you can go lower than that and create slightly smaller file sizes. I would imagine the project file isn't too much bigger than what the wav file is. Hope this gives you a good idea of what to do for disk space.</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">What all do you like about this software? Also, do you know how big the recordings will be? Should I plan on an external HD?</span></p>
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<p>Audacity: <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://audacity.sourceforge.net/</a></p>
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<p>On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:04 PM, <<a href="mailto:blloyd@buskercom.com" target="_blank">blloyd@buskercom.com</a>> wrote:</p></div>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black">My boss goes to a small Baptist Church. He would like to record the sermon and music for the worship service on his computer and use software to edit the recording before burning it to CD. Any recommendations for software? Something easy to use?</span></p>
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