| never dither twice
I agree with the comments above.
Leave both the sample rate and the wordlength at their highest all the way through mixing and post production. Send that into the mastering process.
In (pre)mastering you downsample (e.g. from 96 to 44.1) and the LAST thing you do is reduce the wordlength. Wordlength (bit-depth) reduction is the only step requiring dither.
Dithering is like circumcision. Never do it twice! |