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Old 30th August 2006   #2
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Originally Posted by Chris Parsons View Post
So I've done some live performence recording with a very "consumer" interface that only does 16bit. The question is, for some reason when I export out of Wavelab the files are tagged as 32 bit files. What I then do is just re-save them as 16 bit. I don't think I need to dither as there was no inforamtion past 16 bits in the first place but i'm just checking.

Thanks!
If your doing any processing in wavelab then you'll need to dither down to 16 bit.
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