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i output at 384khz 32bit in ableton, it sounds like vinyl. the bitrate is 17x of vhs but we can afford it these days. youll have to sell it on cd (well, for a single) or dvd or even blu-ray (dualsided supports a couple of hours at this rate).

sites ive tried online only support like 96khz 24bit at most, its also true for flac, theres no floating point support, even if you can zip or 7z your wavs if you want for 30% storage reduction, and fb2k can play em. also try the .TAK format for lossless compression, its real effective.

do note some filters / instruments dont support high quality modes. especially noise just disappears in 24bit or higher. and some instruments sound plain bad.

do remember, anything but floating point is a "dead sound". all analogue music is floating point even equilant of 128bit on 180gram vinyl single, meaning it can get above 0db, and its a lot of dynamic range, even on cassette. thanks for the 2nd like :)

and also, if you play back music, it converts to 32bit then down to 24, so if you dont have it floating point already it will get shredded. same for online music streaming places which use a limiter AND compressor on the sound. youtube, tiktok, soundcloud, they all butcher the quality.

its funny because they dont use amplify / normalize, so if you record vocals like for a simple instruction video or for a friend or whatever, they will be near unintelligable. so its both too loud and too quiet. the internet is really a nuissance.

for anyone doing vlogs or whatever, go into your control panet in windows if you got it, select sound, then microphone, then volume, and increase it to max. theres also db boosting, i use +10, then change to highest quality available, i just flipped to 48khz 24bit. my vocals are a lot more detailed now and noise reduction works better.