First off let me say that the style of the music I'm doing is kind of dirty. Record static, saturation etc, I'm not super picky about a really clean, flawless sound. OK. Now, I've been recording and mixing in 24/44.1. When it comes time to print to cd quality, I'm confused by a couple things.
If I use a plug in that has dithering, like waves limiter l2, when I export the song, do I leave it set to 24 bit wav in reaper?
If not, when I export to 16 bit, will it dither twice?
Noise shaping, what are good settings for this, or should I even use it?
*** of course it would be easier to just do it all thru reaper when I export but my brain is saying waves would be better because I paid more for it....
If I use a plug in that has dithering, like waves limiter l2, when I export the song, do I leave it set to 24 bit wav in reaper?
If not, when I export to 16 bit, will it dither twice?
Noise shaping, what are good settings for this, or should I even use it?
*** of course it would be easier to just do it all thru reaper when I export but my brain is saying waves would be better because I paid more for it....