"john mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karl Dalen" <karldalen at yahoo.se> > > > > [snip] > > ... figure out a easy way to compress these waves from 16 bit to 8bit! > > Discard the bottom 8 bits. (Yes, really!) You should consider dithering instead of truncating, to reduce distortion. Tom.