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Originally Posted by Hamburg58  I have a dithering plugin set to 16 bit (noise shaping) on the original track that is going through the bus with with the plugins and manley treatment then recorded back onto a stereo audio track.. Is this the best way to dither? The tracks were recorded and I bounced them as they were at 24/88.
After this track has been recorded back into Pro Tools I normalize the track to 0.01 or 0.02 db then do my fades....
I then export the Region as a file and export it at 16/44... Burn it on a CD with some other mastered Wav files of similar groups.. Listen in my car. Masters sound good.. But I feel like my mixes are a db or so less than the other mixes I am hearing... |
Dither on the last step when going to 16 bit. There is no point in adding 16 bit dither before processing. (And that includes normalising). You could add a dithering plugin _after_ normalising or you could let Pro Tools dither for you when you export at 16 bit.
But as you are converting, you want to convert at 24 bits and only then dither and truncate down to 16 bits. You might want to just export at 24/88 and do sample rate conversion and bit reduction outside of Pro Tools (I would). What platform are you on?
Alistair