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Old 14th October 2008   #10
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Quote:
Originally Posted by phillysoulman View Post
Dithering basically converts your stereo mixdown to a 16 bit format for the purpose of creating a cd.
oversimplified - but a "sample rate converter" converts your stereo mixdown to 16 bit (CD) - dithering smooths out the low level truncation distortion that occurs when losing those 8 bits of info via conversion.

as i understand it.




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