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Originally Posted by clineaudio
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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)
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Are you using pro-tools? I remember a friend of mine who was using protools would use this little trick that seemed to improve his mixes. He would put the waves L2 limiter across any tracks that he was bouncing not for the purpose of limiting but because the dithering in that version of Pro-Tools (LE ?.?) had poor dithering. The L2 has the option of adding it's own different types of dithering. I never had to worry because by that time Sonar 4 had powr dithering which is the same as Logic 7.
If you really want to do bounced submixes you should really be tracking at 24-bit if you are not already. This makes dither a non-issue. There will already be enough noise to prevent LSB error.
I personally don't know how different digital summing can be from program to program. I know it is a very delicate process but I don't see how one engine could differ very greatly from another. It's basically addition (eg. 10+10=100). Perhaps its the plug-ins you are using. I find that the Logic plug-ins that come out of the box are actually quite nice compared to the digidesign.