Output bit rate

[Eric_J]

Hey everyone,

I am just finishing a project and will send the mix out to be mastered. I wanted to check with ya'll to see if I am doing it right.

My session is in 16bit 44.1k and the mastering lab said the following formats are ok, "send stereo interleaved tracks. Save them onto cd as 16, 24, or 32 bit files in the form of aiff or wav. "

Here is what I was going to do, but I heard RTD (record to disk) is better than bounce but I am not familiar with how to do that.

1. I mix all tracks to a new stereo track.

2. I bounce stereo track with dither set to 16bit.

Thanks for any advice.....