The industry standard is pretty much 16Bit 44100Khz, thats cd quality. Though this should be good enough, I alway bounce my track as 24bit 44100Hz, I don't see the point yet going higher than 44100Hz.

It's advisable to set the limiter to 24bit aswell, this will increase the quality of the sound (in reference to 16Bit).

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As far as I know, dithering is only neccesary when switching bit depths, not when changing sample rates. Assume you know some of this, but just in case:
There is an advantage to using 24 bit when you're planning on doing further processing, but if burning to CD Obviously not. You seem to have this right G-Con. Don't use 48 khz, I'm told (by echosystem) that 88.2 is far better, or you could just stick with 44.1, since I think that this will not result in degadation of quality due to post processing. However, you will want to use 24 bit because it gives you more dynamic detail, which you need given that a track rendered at -6Db is not using its full headroom.
What you set the limiter to will depend on exactly what your setting; if your setting dither on the limiter (ie waves L series) then you'll want to have the bit depth set to the bit depth your rendering to. In your case this is 16. Theran has it right for if your setting your limiters internal resolution, but I've never seen a limiter with an adjustable internal resolution, so its a bit of a moot point.
I should add that ableton now has internal dithering, most DAWs have had this for ages, so you don't neccesarily HAVE to use a plugin dither, but two hits of dither seem to give a more subjectively pleasing sound to me, which is strange - might be complete imagination.

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Thanks for the replies.

I'm on Live 6 so no dithering available on that.

So if I understand you right, I should definately render at 24bit but 88200hz is pointless if all I'm doing is importing back in and sticking a limiter on?

And for the final render, I should set the limiter's dither option to 16bit? (I am using Waves L2)

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Originally posted by G-Con Thanks for the replies. I'm on Live 6 so no dithering available on that. So if I understand you right, I should definately render at 24bit but 88200hz is pointless if all I'm doing is importing back in and sticking a limiter on? And for the final render, I should set the limiter's dither option to 16bit? (I am using Waves L2)

Yep, thats right.

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