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Subject:24bit mastering
Posted by: Big_Faced_Boy
Date:1/30/2004 4:11:47 PM

It seems that many people render their ACID projects to 24 bit wavs. I understand the benefits of doing this, I just want to know what procedures people use for converting these to a 16 bit, 44.1kHz cd master. Do you use conversion utilities or Sound Forge's bit-depth convertor? Or what?

BFB

Subject:RE: 24bit mastering
Reply by: Iacobus
Date:1/30/2004 6:46:29 PM

Yes on using Sound Forge's bit-depth converter.

Iacobus
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mD's ACIDplanet Page

Subject:RE: 24bit mastering
Reply by: Big_Faced_Boy
Date:1/31/2004 2:47:30 AM

Girlio on ACIDPlanet tells me to use dithering, but I'm still interested to hear any more thoughts.

BFB

Subject:RE: 24bit mastering
Reply by: Iacobus
Date:1/31/2004 12:02:57 PM

You should use dithering to mask quantization noise when converting from 24-bit to 16-bit. (It's easier to hear this noise at lower bit-depths, so dithering will help remedy that.)

HTH,
Iacobus
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