[tINY]

Originally Posted by cdog

Contrary to what Tiny said, dither is almost always applied during the mastering stage, although some A/D converters allow you to dither in real time while recording this is usually never done, as you want to preserve as much of the original signal as possible. Dither is only apllied once, almost always at the mastering stage on full program material.

Good to know. Last I looked at it was 10+ years ago when 16bit A/D needed an edge for critical recording.

I would have thought that shifting up the signal so that the highest peak was 0dB and truncating the 8 LSb's would give better results than adding pseudo-random noise at -96dB.


-tINY