Pow-r dither produces -18 on 888 meters?

[Jules]

Is that normal?

I looked over while PT was in park and any stereo track with this dither on produces a non audible meter reading on our 888/16 used for digital routing...

So does Digi's own dither plug in..

Never seen that before!

Thanks

Jules

[Alécio Costa]

Jules, which algorithm level were you using? 1, 2 or 3?
-18dB is too much!!!!!
shouldn´t it be around -52dB?

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Doesn't sound right to me.. verify that your 888 isn't set up as an 888/24 in your hardware.. or trash your prefs.

Rail

[Doug Ring]

I'm sure I've seen the meters "hang" on the 888 from time to time. Sometimes they'll freeze when PT's doing something else like processing a file. I doubt it means you're getting dithered noise at -18dB!

[frenchman]

I had this problem a few days ago after updating Pro tools 6 to 6.2.3. It wasn't a dither plugin but a Sony EQ inserted on a track.
It happened to be a very lo frequency (below 40HZ) modulating tone. Quitting PT and starting it again made the problem vanish.
Can't say for certain where the bug came from...