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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: Jeremy Lykins on September 04, 2008, 10:46:11 PM
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I usually record in 16bit but I decided to tape a band on Wednesday night at 24/44.1. I amplified the recording in Audacity like I usually do with my 16bit recordings, but when I went to dither it in r8brain I got an error message. To answer my own question, it looks like Audacity does dither down to 16bit when you export the file as a .wav (I looked at each file's Properties to see). I checked on the drop-down menu in Audacity and it doesn't look like you can export as 24bit, so what does that mean? Is Audacity's dither a good-quality one, or should I dither before I do any amplification?
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From what I remember you click 24 bit PCM in the drop down menu in save preferences? Haven't used it in awhile but I think that's right.
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This should explain how to export 24-bit: http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,71191.0.html
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I think the other issue here is r8brain. the primary prupose of r8brain is to resample audio, and while it does apply dither after resampling, I don't think you can use it to only apply dither without resampling. in your case, the original files are 24/44.1, so you aren't doing any resampling, you only need to bring it down to 16 bit to get to 16/44.1.
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From what I remember you click 24 bit PCM in the drop down menu in save preferences?
Thanks, I just found it. It's not on the first drop-down menu, so you have to click on "Other" to get that option.
This should explain how to export 24-bit: http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,71191.0.html
Thanks.
I think the other issue here is r8brain.
Is there a better free program to use?