[Jonny Atack]

Hi all,

Our studio crew and I read with great interest Dave Lebolt's announcement of a dithering mixer plugin test.

We downloaded the two mixers A and B last night from the digi site. Interestingly enough, mixers A and B use less hard disk space (520kb each) than the 24-bit Optimized Mixer (780kb). Digi, is this a full service mixer plug? How did you get more into less code?

Using PT 24 MixPlus 4.3.1, we followed Dave Lebolt's instructions in the "ProTools Sound Quality???" thread, except after bouncing both versions to disk, we re-loaded the original 24-bit Optimized Mixer plug v.1.7.2 for the listening test, as per Rail's suggestion.

Source: a 24-bit, 20-track rap song with NO plugins.

Conclusion: A subjective preference for Mixer A. However, my slight suspicion that that there was no real difference between the two was confirmed by swapping phase polarity and mono panning on a stereo aux send. All cancelled out leaving zero audio.

Digi, is one of the mixer plugins really dithering as you described? It's difficult to believe that using dither would have no effect. Is is necessary to turn the computer off between mixer plug swaps in the DAE folder? I was just quitting PT between the swaps without shutting down.

Jonny


[This message has been edited by Jonny Atack (edited December 12, 1999).]