File formats to choose from

Richard Harrington: So Rob, not all audio recorders are created equal, and I think we've…become desensitized as a production community to good audio, because things like iTunes…and AAC audio, AC3, MP3; we've taken convenience over quality.…Robbie Carman: Yeah, that's right.…It's not to say that those formats don't sound pretty good, but there's a lot that goes into…good audio and understanding some of the technical aspects of how a digital audio recorder is pretty important.…

And so one of the first things that I look at when choosing a digital audio recorder…is what file formats that it can record to, and the most common ones that you're going…to find are AIFF, WAV and then MP3.…Now some of the recorders could also do AAC, but more times than not you're going to find…WAV, AIFF, or MP3.…Richard Harrington: And there really is no huge difference in two of those.…For example, if you're using AIFF or WAV, it's really just a matter of the native platform.…The AIFF format was more commonly used in a Macintosh workflow while the WAV was more…