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digitalstasis
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Hi all !
... and double hi, as it's my first post here.
So after monitoring here for personal mixing education i finally have a question to ask
or maybe it's thinking loud, as i don't really know the question i want to ask. BTW i like Yi Ching and one the first thing you learn with it is that asking the question is already main part of the answer... mm.. well so:
So the question is not about what are bit depht pro & cons etc... but rather about purely mixing.
Using a little VST tool, tobybear bitviewer (that you can find here http://www.tobybear.de/p_utilbag.html ), it's really interesting to see how the bit depht observed reacts to the incomming sound.
For example a loud sound will consume les bit depht that the same played quieter.
How does it realate to mixing ? or to computer composing ?
computer composing: if a better handling of bit depht would save some cpu cycles, but that question would be better expenrienced or discussed on computer forum.
mixing: we know by ear that bit depht is not a primary concern in music expressivity. Although for successive mixing pass, multi multi channel mixing the bit depht does import more, even if not at all as much as sampling frequency does for example.
MMM... in fact the question is maybe not about purely mixing. Mixing is maximizing effect vs sound efficiency (?).
Yes, maybe finally i have the question(s) now
- at equal quality, is it better for a signal to occupy more or less bits ?
- in more or less bits the signal will maybe not have the same qualty at all ?
- does it relate with playback volume & quality ?
Ok, thanks for efforts to those who have read so far, i'll be glad to see any remarks on my statements/questionings
... and double hi, as it's my first post here.
So after monitoring here for personal mixing education i finally have a question to ask

So the question is not about what are bit depht pro & cons etc... but rather about purely mixing.
Using a little VST tool, tobybear bitviewer (that you can find here http://www.tobybear.de/p_utilbag.html ), it's really interesting to see how the bit depht observed reacts to the incomming sound.
For example a loud sound will consume les bit depht that the same played quieter.
How does it realate to mixing ? or to computer composing ?
computer composing: if a better handling of bit depht would save some cpu cycles, but that question would be better expenrienced or discussed on computer forum.
mixing: we know by ear that bit depht is not a primary concern in music expressivity. Although for successive mixing pass, multi multi channel mixing the bit depht does import more, even if not at all as much as sampling frequency does for example.
MMM... in fact the question is maybe not about purely mixing. Mixing is maximizing effect vs sound efficiency (?).
Yes, maybe finally i have the question(s) now

- at equal quality, is it better for a signal to occupy more or less bits ?
- in more or less bits the signal will maybe not have the same qualty at all ?
- does it relate with playback volume & quality ?
Ok, thanks for efforts to those who have read so far, i'll be glad to see any remarks on my statements/questionings
