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Old 15th October 2008   #33
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Originally Posted by rallycapmusic View Post
well i as far as a regular PT's session goes and im ready to do a bounce so the song can go to cd, do i use the dither plugin on the master fader? or say after a bounce i run the song file through PEAK or some other program for futher processing, then at THAT stage do i dither there before it goes to cd?
Again: add dither last. Every time, no matter how you're processing or whatever, if you need to convert a file from 24-bits to 16-bits for ANY reason, the dither comes absolutely last. After all the processing, after all the necessary sample rate conversions, etc etc.

Add dither last.
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