Dither or Don't?

mrvinyl · Post by **mrvinyl** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:19 pm

When I export a track whats the dither function
it seems to default to triangular, should I go with this or turn off dither
whats the ditherence 'ahem I mean difference

mrvinyl · Post by **mrvinyl** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:23 pm

here's what it is, some kind of quantisation error correction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dithering

but what i really want to know is....
what funk is it gonna put on my tune, or shall I turn it off, anyone ?

Mazzo · Post by **Mazzo** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:36 pm

render a short piece of audio with each setting

listen to the rendered audio, choose the one you like the sound of the most.

mrvinyl · Post by **mrvinyl** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:44 pm

nice one
I tried all six methods of dithering,

but to be honest they all sound the same?

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:47 pm

Dithering is a way to preserve the information in the 8 bits that are truncated when going from 24-bit to 16-bit (or 32>24 or 32>16). There are several threads on here already... search and you shall find.