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The material I have recorded is at 24 bit 48000. I want to use the L1 as a final stage limiter. Should I downsample and do bit reduction only (no dither) through Cool edit and then run The L1 at 16 bit 44100, or allow Cool edit dither as well. The Waves manual is a little vague on this. Would it be better to simply use the L1 at 24 bit then downsample for CD's using Cool edit

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Michael Fossenkemper Thu, 05/06/2004 - 06:29

anytime you change something or process something, you should be dithering. Even if you have a 16 bit file and you move the fader up or down .1db, it becomes a 24 bit file and must be dithered to 16 bit if your going to use it for CD or you'll be truncating it. Same goes for 24 bit files. most internal processing is larger than 24 bit and should be dithered down to 24 bit after any processing. noise shaping is up to you.