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Old 15th March 2009   #19
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Originally Posted by oky**** View Post
hi,

that is one real nasty issue that is often overlooked. when you have "almost hard left" or "almost hard right", the opposite channel will be degraded in pro tools [and other current daws, as far as i know]. in some circumstances it sounds really bad.
That is one of the reasons why the dithered mixer exists in ProTools. You get "dithered 24 bit resolution" all the way down to the noisefloor instead of distortion. This includes every part of the mixer, aux sends and all.

With the dithered mixer there should not be audible degradation of low level signals. Especially since ProTools has "foot room" aswell as headroom in its 48 bit fixed point processing.
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