[linux-audio-user] Re: sound recording application

[Phil Mendelsohn]

linux-audio-user-request at music.columbia.edu said:

> From: Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
> "no audio interface i have ever heard of does dithering."

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> From: Ismael Valladolid Torres <ivalladolidt at terra.es>
>
> "BTW dithering should be considered a mastering trick. I humblely
> suggest forgetting about dithering except only when mastering."

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I'll pick a nit here:

Dithering happens at the A/D converter.  I've never heard of an interface
that didn't have it, but that's talking about it at the circuit (sub IC)
level.

It is in every audio interface you can find outside of a museum, I'd say.

*REDITHERING* is what happens in mastering -- you work at higher
resolution than your delivery format (16-bit CD, usually), and then dither
back at the end.

Phil M

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