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Question about rendering mixdowns
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| evo8 |
Currently i render my mixdown from Cubase as a 24 bit wav file, i then use Exact Audio Copy to convert this wav to mp3 via a LAME encoder...
Is this the right way to do it, should i render from Cubase as a 16 bit wav instead and then convert to mp3...i cant seem to get a NON joint stereo mp3 output from cubase so i just use EAC instead, just a bit confused as to what is the best way to do this
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| thoughtlessjex |
| If you only dither when compressing to mp3, your settings are fine. It's best to keep the highest quality until the very end, then compress for the sake of space. |
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| evo8 |
| Hey, thanks for the reply, i take it then that the mp3 encoder is doing the dithering, or is this completely wrong? |
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| thoughtlessjex |
| quote: | Originally posted by evo8
Hey, thanks for the reply, i take it then that the mp3 encoder is doing the dithering, or is this completely wrong? |
I don't know. I've never used EAC, although I assume it would have the option of dithering. |
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| DigiNut |
You should render from Cubase as 16-bit using the UV22-HR dithering plugin on your final output. You'll lose some quality if you let LAME handle the dithering - actually, it won't dither at all, it will truncate.
FYI, for non-Cubase users reading this, there's no comparable plugin in FL or Reason or even Logic, so what you should do in that case is render as 32-bit, and use a dithering plugin offline like Waves IDR to make a 16-bit version before encoding to MP3. |
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| evo8 |
| quote: | | You'll lose some quality if you let LAME handle the dithering |
yeah that was my fear, ill render from cubase as 16 bit from now on, cheers all! |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by evo8
yeah that was my fear, ill render from cubase as 16 bit from now on, cheers all! |
Don't just bounce as 16-bit otherwise you'll get the same truncation problem. You have to render with the UV22 plugin, or else bounce as 32-bit and dither it in a wave editor. |
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