Anyone have any familiarity with using WAVES vst with Sound Forge? I sometimes use the L2 and L3 compressors as the last step in my workflow, not to compress really that much, more to normalize without concern for squashing some of the transients. But regardless of whether that makes you cringe or not, I've recently come to learn that the quantization/dithering/noise shaping that the L3 plugin has is supposedly very, very high end. In fact, the L2/L3 plugins are discussed several times in the "Mastering Audio" book by Bob Katz. Anyway, what I'm unclear about is that I believe it is possible to use the L2/L3 strictly to dither/noise-shape from 24-bit to 16-bit as the last step (regardless of whether you use it to comrpess). What I'm unclear about is that if I set the plugin to 16-bit, then send it a 24-bit source, I am still left with a 24-bit file at the end. At that point, I'm wondering if I can just change the bit-rate using the "process" menu WITHOUT applying any dithering or noise shaping at all? Normally, I'd use SF's dithering and noise shaping algorithms at that step, but I wonder if I use the L3/L2 at 16-bit with noise shaping/dithering, will I be essentially be dithering TWICE if I do it again with SF? Does anyone know? My impression is that the L2/L3 plugin is really designed to be the last step in the workflow. I send it a 24-bit file, and it'll handle the dithering for a move to 16-bit for me (and will compress if I want to), but I'm not sure if that is true and if it is, how do I actually change the bit rate of the file in SF at that point? Anyone have any clue about what I am talking about? THANKS!