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petev3.1

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Remastering CDs
#994131 - 22/06/12 11:17 AM

I have some old CDS I want to tart up a bit. If I import them to C6, play around a bit and then re-dither them back to 16 bit wavs will I wreck them? Or can this work okay?

Thanks.

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#994152 - 22/06/12 12:42 PM

Unless they are 24 bit files on data cd there will be no need to dither them back to 16 bit. If they play in a cd player they will be 16 bit, unless you are expanding word length purely for processing purposes which is arguably not worth doing as most processing will happen within the DAW at 32 bit float internally.

I would just got for subjective improvements eq etc. nothing too extreme.

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#994158 - 22/06/12 01:18 PM

It will work okay.

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petev3.1

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#994432 - 24/06/12 10:31 AM

Thanks. I've been assuming that I'd have to re-dither after any processing, even if it's just equing. Is this not necessarily the case?

I suppose it's all about how it sounds, but I'd rather trust better ears than mine.

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#994456 - 24/06/12 11:19 AM

Quote petev3.1:

Thanks. I've been assuming that I'd have to re-dither after any processing, even if it's just equing.

Correct - that's the theory of dither.

Unless that is, all you're doing is editing (ie. cutting up / assembling stuff without changing it), in which you don't want to redither.

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#994576 - 25/06/12 09:02 AM

Thanks folks. That sorts it for me.

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#994662 - 25/06/12 03:13 PM

Any manipulation of the cd audio in terms of levels, eq, dynamics etc will extend the original wordlength and therefore the output to cd must be redithered to 16 bits.

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