dithering

[xMannequiNx]

What do you guys do to dither your tracks from 24 bit to 16 bit to prepare for burning?

I don't trust logic to dither it nicely...or should I?

 

[LydonB]

I don't see why Logic would do a poor job with it.

I would assume Waveburner can dither as well if you use that for preparing CDs.

 

[brandy]

Usually UV22HR... There are long discussions out there about the "right dither"... Well... I did truckloads of albums & mastering etc, I would say that it makes not *that* difference to me in a already highly distorted, noisy metal-context. As long as you use a dither as well as if you avoid re-dithering down the road I would say every quality dither is ok...

 

[Caustica]

I do a fair bit of mastering through Logic and have never had an issue with the dithering choices in it.

By the by, correct me if i'm wrong, but Waveburner runs on the same engine as Logic doesn't it?

 

[AStacy2]

I'm using the dither in Mbit+ in Ozone4, used to use the UV22HR.

 

[xMannequiNx]

god damnit im retarded

i meant pro tools not logic! GAHH!!

 

[elmuchoescadawg]

I use the dither on this

http://www.tcelectronic.com/md3tdm.asp

 

[xMannequiNx]

aww its for HD

I have LE

 

[Caustica]

Are you mastering the tracks yourself in protools or are you sending them elsewhere to be mastered?

 

[LydonB]

In Pro Tools the way I dither is I set up a stereo aux track and a stereo audio track. I send everything through the aux track with dither plugin on in the last insert slot and set the input of my stereo track as the output of the aux track and I then record onto the stereo track.

Hope this helps