i think keep your masters at 24 bit and then dithering down would be better than another conversion. There are many kinds of dither and they sound different. I use uv22, idr, pow-r. it all depends on what your tastes are. There are many dithering plugins available for many platforms. I would play around with some and find what meets your tastes.

Originally posted by Michael Fossenkemper:

There are many dithering plugins available for many platforms.

thanks a lot for ur reply.

could you maybe recommend some ?

im searching for some that dither at proper quality...

thx

Daniel,
I like the 'Waves L1 Ultramaximizer'. It's one of the best plugins you can own.

Mike

Michael, that is an awesome new avatar you have there. Quite impressive. I own several of those.

David, thanks. It took me two days to compile it and put it together.
Defbringa, The ones I mentioned are a good place to start. There is debate over which are better but it's really up to the individual.

yes, but where can use them ?

since i do not use hardware to dither i need to know which software supports the dithering types that u mentioned ?

can i use them in soundforge, wavelab, peak or something ?

You can get UV22 as a plugin, infact the all come as TDM plugins. But with TDM you need the hardware. They might also come as RTAS but I'm not sure. Sorry I can't help more.

tc electronics spark xl mastering software has good dithering

the pow-r dither sounds best but the dither in the waves L2 is allright for semi-pro use... the L1 is fine too... for 8bit!!!

z-r-ström,
the Waves L2 runs at 48bit = you have to use the dither to scale down and have a decent 24/16bit output.
What kind of music are you working on when you don't use the dither?

what Henrik is saying is that if your using the L2, it processes at 48 bit and you should dither that down to 24 bit coming out of the unit. Otherwise your truncating. the only way to do this is if you use the internal IDR dither which in my opinion, sounds good. This goes with most digital processors, even outboard stuff. Most process at higher that 24 bit and need to be dithered down, the only way of doing that is with whatever they decided to put in their unit. Some use powr, IDR, uv22.

hej henrik!

I was trying to make a joke about the sound of the L1 !!!
it is so rusty that the only thing good about it is the ability to dither to 8bit!!

of course i use dither... I dither my 24bit files to 16bit using the pow-r type 2 dither found in waveburner.

I must admit that i don't dither inside the L2... I hope that waves have taken care of internal dithering!!!
it would be a disaster if allplug-ins(that process in more than 24bit) truncate their output!

respect and regards og venlig hilsen

Hej z-r-ström... is there a real name?

Are you doing mastering? or recording and mastering?
Are you using Waveburner as your only program?
What do you use for monitoring? and signal processing?

Best Regards/Med venlig hilsen
Henrik

I'm doing mixing mastering and sometimes recording

http://www.studioc4.dk

How do you like that Fairman eq?

I really don't understand what the big beef with L1 is. I hear a lot of people talk about how bad it sounds - I use it quite a bit for gentle volume adjustments and have had no issues with it.

I don't, however, use the IDR - I do my SRC and dithering with WaveLab's internal components.

the fairman eq is the sweetest sounding eq on the planet!!! warm and full without the loose-sounding bass of eg. tubetech...

not for small adjustments but for the really broad eq sweetening it is second to none!! if i remember it correctly it has a 3 oct. range at the lowest q-setting.

i use on every master i do sometimes in chain with the avalon that is more clinical sounding because (of course) it is solid state circuits