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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: kskreider on March 01, 2004, 02:26:23 PM
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Hey folks,
I have been goofing around with some Waves plug-ins in the past week or two and I have a couple of questions.
Does the IDR actually dither or just quantize the digital signal. I ran IDR on a small 24-bit file and still had a 24-bit file once the processing was done.
Also, what Waves plug-in's can be (read: should be)used for resampling and/or dithering. I becoming a little familiar with the L2, but I am under the impression that is just a limiter/compressor/noise-shaper and doesn't physically dither or resample the file.
OK, last question. What order should the plug-in's be run in? I am under the impression that your L1 or L2 should be the last in line...is that right? So do I want to dither or resample first before runnning a noise shaper?
Any help is appreciated and please correct me if I am wrong on anything above.
On the learning curve...Kk
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I am also learning about this but I think I may have some valid input. Pretty sure you would want the L2 at the end of the chain of noise shapers but before dithering/resampling. The more bits and samples you have, the cleaner any noise shaping will be.
-Kevin
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I think the Waves plugins are 32-bit plugs. This means, in order to listen on any "normal" system, you have to go back to 16 or 24 bits. It will dither to either (and a few levels in between, I think), but you have to select the output bit depth. It basically "cleans up its own mess" by properly reducing the bit depth.