Mixing the song down

[GamezBond]

Hey guys, I'm learning about audio programs,and I hear it's like 48 bit internal processing so theoryitically wouldnt it be better to first render an instrumental file, then a accapella file, then mix them together, rather than rendering a whole file from both at once

 

[AlexW]

I'm not sure what you're referring to as "rendering"; mixing down to two tracks? I would think the summing bus in your DAW can handle summing tracks ok, unless you're exceeding the track limit somehow.

 

[dgatwood]

Hey guys, I'm learning about audio programs,and I hear it's like 48 bit internal processing so theoryitically wouldnt it be better to first render an instrumental file, then a accapella file, then mix them together, rather than rendering a whole file from both at once

48 bits has a value range of -2^47 through +2^47. Each track is +/- 2^23. That means you can have 2^24 (that's 47 - 23) tracks at full volume before you'd distort.

Of course, this might be 48-bit floating point math we're talking about, and 24 bit integer is roughly equivalent in precision to 32 bit float, in which case, I'm lying sliightly with those numbers, but the point is you should be able to mix at -least- several -million- tracks before a 48-bit mix bus would have detectable quality issues.

 

[Atterion]

Uhhmm, Yeah, What he said