Mixdown Resolution

When it’s time to finalize a particular podcast episode and save your mix in MP3 format, it is a really good practice to FIRST save your final mix in an uncompressed format like .WAV of .AIFF for archiving purposes, and THEN also save it in MP3 format.

This way, months or years later, if you ever need to make edits to that particular episode, you can make the edits on the uncompressed file and then create the new MP3 from that edited uncompressed file. Doing it that way is much better quality than editing the original MP3 and then saving/re-encoding it again as an MP3.

Note: Fission by Rogue Amoeba is the only audio editor that I know of that DOESN’T re-encode an MP3 after you edit it; it saves the edited MP3 audio without having to re-encode it, which avoids the degradation of re-encoding.

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