18 Mar
2004
18 Mar
'04
11:53 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:30:44AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Yeah. See part of my thought is that I *want* to
master at 24-bit, get
things right with EQ and compression, then add dithering and make sure
it doesn't mess things up. To do that last step I want to go back and
forth between 24-bit and 16-bit dithered, most especially on fade outs
and in quiet passages, etc. I don't see how Daniel could do this with
the setup he's proposing.
Yeah, my initial feeling is that JAMin should offer to dither, so you can
control it centrally before JACK gets it hands on it, and be sure the
recording will be an accurate reflection of what you hear.
I gues the most JACKy thing would be an external client that just does
dithering.
What he could do is choose different dithering
algorhythms and compare
how each sounded, which is important, but if they *all* mess things up
he won't know that.
Yes.
Dithering is a really interesting issue. One a few
things I've done it's
been important. On many type of source material it seems to make little
or no difference. Much to learn. Bob Katz's book has some really
interesting sections on this subject. If you don't do everything right
in front of the dither, then dithering will make no difference at all.
Yeah, I really need to read that Katz book. So little time :(
- Steve