Using gstreamer0.8-lame with Sound Juicer

[Mary Gardiner]

I'm using gstreamer0.8-lame with Sound Juicer to encoded mp3s.
Unfortunately it sets a really high bitrate (it may actually be
lossless) resulting in enormous files: 10MB for a file that would usually
be 3MB with a 196kb bitrate.

There's a thread on the forums about this:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/printthread.php?t=957 but noone has figured
out how to configure gstreamer0.8-lame's bitrate. Does anyone here know
how to do it?

-Mary