Topic: Audio recording question
I have PT Standard and set my PT recordings to max: 48000, 32 bit. I then process them through Audacity and have been exporting them at 48000, 32 bit floating WAV. As I am about to transfer a cd collection to a streaming system, I experimented with flac instead of WAV to save space. Audacity has a max of "8", whatever that means, and 24 bit. Listening to a test recording it sounded a bit thinner, but that might have been my imagination.
Two questions: anyone know what "8" means - higher or lower than 48000 and therefore is an 8/24 bit flac recording likely to be inferior to a 48000/32bit WAV recording? Secondly, is the sound quality of PT Pro - up to 192000, presumably at least 32bit - significantly better than Standard?