mixdown w/ dither

[bdemenil]

Is there any reason to mixdown with dither if you're not converting from 24 to 16 bit? IE, if you are mixing from 24 bit tracks to a 24 bit mixdown.

[TimOBrien]

No. Dithering is only useful for resampling to different bit-depth.

[Slackmaster2K]

Ah, but you should have dithering on! Remember that n-Track uses a standard 32bit internal bit depth, so it is useful to always use dither. (turn it on from properties, and turn it on while mixing down)

Slackmaster 2000

[bdemenil]

Slack - if I check dither in the mixdown dialog, I can then specify how many bits to dither. The default is 1 - should I just leave it at that? And is that dither realy being applied on the 32 to 24 bit conversion?

Ben

[Slackmaster2K]

I just leave it at 1 bit, yeah.

Now, whether the mixdown dither option has any effect on the 32 to 24 bit conversion, I'm not sure, but I check it just in case. Unless it's very stupid, it probably won't dither if it doesn't have to! However, the dither option under properties does apply, as far as I know, to the internal 32 to lower bit depth conversions.

Slackmaster 2000

[bdemenil]

I've been looking into it. It looks to me like the one in the mixdown dialog and the one in the properties dialog are the same. When I checked dither under properties, it automaticly got checked under mixdown.

[bdemenil]

If you put a waves L1 on the master channel, should you then turn dither off in ntrack?