Before you start recording you can select the appropriate record mode by means of setting three record parameters
You can record in mono or stereo (provided that your sound hardware has that capability).
You can choose between the three standard sampling rates (11.025 kHz, 22.050 kHz and 44.100 kHz) provided by most of the sound cards currently available or you can set any nonstandard rate supported by your audio card. If you want to save the recorded soundfiles on a CD 'as are' pick the CD-format settings (44.100 kHz, stereo).
NOTICE
DART CD-Recorder Basic is equipped with an extremely fast, high-quality resampling utility which automatically converts any 'nonstandard' wave file to a CD format. If you wish to clean an audio file prior to putting it on a CD consider recording it (and restoring) at a lower rate. There are at least two advantages of doing this:
1. Declicking is usually more effective at low sampling rates - at high rates clicks are less sharp and hence more difficult to detect and isolate. The same, to some extent, concerns denoising - since noise dominates the high-frequency portion of the signal spectrum, fast sampling decreases the overall signal-to-noise ratio which makes the restoration task more difficult.
2. Since resampling is less time consuming than declicking or denoising (dehissing) the "restore at lower rate and upsample" scheme works considerably faster than the "restore at higher rate" scheme.
You can decide whether individual samples will be stored in a single byte (8 bits) or an entire word (16 bits) of computer memory. In order to guarantee good quality of the reproduced sound you should always use the 16-bit resolution.
NOTICE
The system will not allow you to change the above settings once the process of recording has started. If you are recording new material in an existing soundfile, all settings have to remain unchanged.