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Originally Posted by dagosto
One thing that I do think about is that during edit there has got to be a few processes dropped here and there when the load on the CPU is extreme. My logic (small l) would conclude that sound quality during edit has a lot to do with speed and condition of the computer you are recording on.
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Just to clarify, my point was a loss of fidelity in mix down, rather than loss of fidelity during edit. My edit sounds good, even during mixdown, but the final bounced file, even with dither, is often missing something. This of course is largely related to a "step-down" in resolution. But I do notice it simply during a stem mixdown/bounce within same session. This comes back to Dagosto's prev "digital gain staging" topic regarding dither, bit resolution relative to fader level, etc.
On that topic:
Am I better off bussing my tracks 1-4 w/ dither, at the level that I want to monitor those tracks onto a new "bounced" track whose level is at unity gain.. ...or am I better bouncing each track 1-4 at their hottest relative levels, and running the bouncED track at a lower level?
(kick me if this needs to be moved over to that topic)