Hi Harry. depending on the quality you need you can actually get a very long file to be 2 gigs or less. SR's default bit rate is 44100 kHz but you can change that to 22050 or even 11025 which gives you four times as much recording time. second, as someone else suggested, you can change from Stereo to mono. BUT Very long files have their problems. If you split the types in to smaller files, it's easier to find something unless you are always going to play the file back in SR where you can use bookmarks, split files will be less cumbersome in the long run. and even at 44-k especially if you use mono you have a long recording time. My recording of Genesis from the RSV bible by Scourby runs 222 minutes and 45 seconds at 44.1K mono. file size is 1,151,200 KB meaning I could probably take another hour and a half on this file. My own preference is to record using higher bit rates even if voice quality does not compel it. I do my compressing only at the final stage where I convert to MP3 format for storage. Duane Iverson ----- Original Message ----- From: Harry Brown To: studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx