On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 03:38 +0000, Harry van Haaren wrote: > A better workflow would be to: > > A) Ardour export 32 bit float -> 16bit (with dither) -> Audacity 16bit > in, crop, 16bit out > > B) Ardour export 32 bit -> 24 bit (no dither) -> Audacity 24bit in, > crop, export 16bit (with dither). > > > The important part being to not dither twice, since then you'll be > adding noise to the signal twice! > > > > I'll be using option A above from now on I think, since it involves > less bit-depth changes. > > Living and learning :) When you need to add noise, consider to use proprietary noise :S. -------- Oops,I used the wrong account: Forwarded Message -------- From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> To: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org Subject: Re: Dithering...should we dither about it? Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 00:50:58 +0100 Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 18:51 +0000, Harry van Haaren wrote: > I generally export to 32bit float .flac... so no dithering (or burning > to CD's :) That's good. I keep my recordings as 48 KHz 32bit float PCMs, but I would be willing to use FLAC too, assumed somebody would be interested in my recordings and I would be willing to share them. However, what is dithering ;)? What are CDs? I remember that a long, long time ago, when [... long story ...] there were special "noise algorithms" available. It wasn't just steady noise by what ever waveform. IIRC it was noise, that only was added to low audio signal levels. Non-free-open-source-noise ;). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
