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YANTRA
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Posted : Dec 5, 2007 22:46
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hey! i hv been told by a friend that dithering kind "corrects" some errors made by distortion, when u use a lot etc..
The thing is, i hv bounced lots of tracks using Logic 5.5, but with no dithering aplied. My friend told me that i should hv chosen the first option , (POW 1).. Now I am too lazy to do all the bounces again (also because then i would hv to "master" all of them again too), and i am going to play in a party in a couple of days.. So , will this dittering function make a difference that becomes relevant to bounce everything again before go performing at the party? Or it is no big deal, i could do it later or even leave it undone (no dithering aplied)?
I appreciate if u give me some hints! thx a lot!
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MadScientist
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Posted : Dec 5, 2007 22:57
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afaik, dithering is just used when quantizing down, for example from 24 to 16bit, at the end of mastering...the dithering adds low noise to make the quantising smoother as far as I know...
so no, I wouldnt bounce everything down again 
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Posted : Dec 6, 2007 09:25
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if you don't have time to do it before the next party, then you don't have time to do it...
is it likely that everyone will stop dancing and say 'hey - Yantra's tracks aren't dithered! BOOOO!!! we're going home!'? probably not... but i'm sure you want to get things perfect, right? so in future, yes go back and dither.
as i understand it dithering applies noise in a controlled random fashion which helps us perceive an undistorted signal when the bit depth of a signal is reduced. but bear in mind that most often this is performed by the mastering engineer... and is not something you should be doing as a separate process when rendering a project. lots of people would only dither with specialist plugins in soundforge etc. once a track is in stereo wav file.
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PoM
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Posted : Dec 6, 2007 12:59
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from what i know dithering with noise shaping can be used only once ( the last at the end of mastering,cause it rise the noise floor if used more times i guess ) but you can use ditering without noise shaping before if you need to go from floating point to integer (doesn t happen usually ) |
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Dec 6, 2007 19:21
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