Jan Depner wrote: > Hi Mark. There's another good question. I've read a bunch of stuff on > dithering but I haven't noticed the difference. Which do you use, > shaped or triangular? > > Jan > I use whatever Waves provides as a default. Not sure, but I think it's POWER dither. The best way (I think) to study dither is listening to (generally) the very end of recordings, whene the signal to noise is getting low since the signal is generally decreasing. You could also take a mix of yours, something that you know the sound of, and do a mix with the levels set very, very low, and try different dithers. Dither is intended to help increase the 'apparent' SNR. It doesn't really increase the real SNR, but your ear can generally pick out audio that's a bit below the SNR level (I still find that interesting!) and the choice of dither will improve how far down you can hear. Investigate how it effects panning too. I have never heard the choice of dither make any 'noticible' difference in my recordings at normal high volume levels, but I suspect that good dither doesn't hurt normal volumes as much as bad dither might. That's just a guess though. cheers, Mark
