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Old 04-18-2007, 06:00 PM
el Daniel el Daniel is offline
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Default Re: Stereo Dithered Mixer

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Fair point, the use of compression & limiting can often bring up the noise floor quite dramatically though so that's another thing to bare in mind when talking about noise floor.
Sure, but it should be taken into account that the best noise floor each track could have after tracking is the noise floor of your converters and, since that noise is much louder than dither noise, that would be the noise your compression and limiting will bring up.

100 24 bits dither generations per track would be needed to equal the noise of your great -120dBFS noise floor converters and therefore building up the noise floor by only 3dB. So given a session with 100 plug-ins in each track (I know there are only 5 inserts) your final noise floor would be only 3dB louder than in a session with no plug-ins at all, independently of the amount of compression and limiting you use.

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Daniel
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