TL;DW: Dark deep ‘dither’ (includes 16 bit version) Dither Me Timbers What is a dither? Dither is a way of changing one type of noise, quantization, to a different type, just plain noise. It’s all about manipulating a situation where your waveform must decide between two options, ‘up’ or ‘down’, and pick one of a […]
TL;DW: Ditherbox is a switchable selection of dithers in 16 and 24 bit, plus monitoring tools. Ditherbox This one’s fairly simple to explain. It’s (nearly) every Airwindows dither plugin in one box, with a control to select between them. Well, there’s a bit more: Ditherbox comes with 16 bit versions built in (the individual plugins […]
TL:DW; Design your own tone-shaped TPDF. BuildATPDF I explained how DoublePaul was made: taking a TPDF highpass dither, and including additional nearby samples to cause the tone of the noise to be more high-pitched. Wouldn’t be fair if I didn’t give you a chance to play with it yourself :) To use BuildATPDF the way […]
TL:DW; Like PaulDither, but more so. DoublePaul This is for sort of a special purpose. I’ve got an outrageous custom dither (well, wordlength reducer: there’s no noise and no randomness in it) called Not Just Another Dither. For final output, it’s that I recommend. However, I’ve got a mastering engineer friend (Hi Bob!) who favors […]
