[mbc113]

so, i've known what dither is for years and why we have to use it, etc., but i embarassingly have never known at what points in the signal chain its needed. actually, to be honest i've never really thought about it too much; i always just think that my DAW will take care of this for me. anyway... is it just at the very end during mixdown that it needs to engaged? should it just be added in mastering? before any processing? it seems that you wouldn't want to be adding noise all the time, since it seems like it would built up, right? what's the story?