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Originally Posted by phillysoulman  Dithering basically converts your stereo mixdown to a 16 bit format for the purpose of creating a cd. |
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Originally Posted by hobson 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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Correctomundo! Yeah, that "distortion" adds a low nivel of noise to make it sound professional. Dithering can make a clear sounding demo sound like a CD finished product after 4 band linear phase leveling and dithering.