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Dither or Don't?
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:19 pm
by mrvinyl
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
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:23 pm
by mrvinyl
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 ?
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:36 pm
by Mazzo
render a short piece of audio with each setting
listen to the rendered audio, choose the one you like the sound of the most.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:44 pm
by mrvinyl
nice one
I tried all six methods of dithering,
but to be honest they all sound the same?
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:47 pm
by ethios4
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.