n-track and dither

[larrye]

I was reading at different forums and came across a dithering shootout at http://www.recording.org/cgi-local/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi in the mastering section. I did it and there was quite a bit of difference in the various dithering programs that were used. I then used their original wave to try out the dither of n-track and ozone. N-track had a lot of noise but the type 2 dither of ozone was very close to the best of the other dithering programs. (at least in my opinion). To make the dither audible, a very low wave file, about -64 db, is dithered and then boosted +54 db.

My question is does it make any difference? If you have to boost +54 db to hear it will it make any difference in the quality of the mix you burn to CD?

Anyway, I thought someone else might like to take a look at the thread over there.

Larrye

[Arranger]

larrye, I'm not sure if the link points to recording.org or goes to 24-96.net. Which of these is the thread you're heading toward?:
http://www.recording.org/cgi-local/u...;f=20;t=000327
http://www.24-96.net/dither/

Very, very neat topic. I'll be following closely. Thanks.

[larrye]

Recording.org is the thread, you have to go to 24-96 dither for the dithering shootout. Try it out and see what you think.

Larrye

[caryindy]

Larrye,

Sorry for the slightly off topic post...

Do you run N-track and Ozone?

[larrye]

Yes,
I recently upgraded to Ozone II. It works OK. It really pushes my P-III 733 Mhz machine. But it will work if I don't try to run it with the mixer open. For some reason that will crash it every time.
Larrye

[caryindy]

Hi Larrye,
Thanks for the reply. I have Izotope and Fasoft looking at that problem right now. I'm am looking at the demo of Ozone and was having problems with the program crashing, just as you described. I'm running an Intel P4 1.8g with 512m ram and it crashes. I'll post any news in a new thread.