'Bump' noise in Adobe Audition

lesh84817475 wrote: Thanks very much Steve for listening to the file. I will send a wav file in the morning. Are you perhaps saying that because wav formats are better quality I should record in that format wherever possible? The issue of course is that a lot of auditions require mp3 formatted files. I'm going to bed now but thanks again for your time. Regards, Les H

The situation is very simple; MP3 is only a distribution format, and was never intended to be for production purposes. The idea is that you record and edit everything in uncompressed wav format, and when you do a final distribution copy, you use 'save as' to create a separate file just for this purpose. It also means that if you want or need to send something out in a different format for any reason, you've still got the uncompressed master to go back to. The problem with MP3 is that every time you open the file, you have to decode it - and if you subsequently re-encode it, the quality drops dramatically, and this is progressive. With uncompressed wav files, none of this happens.