TL;DW: Spatial positioning and clarity dither. SpatializeDither Spatialize is one of my high-performance boutique dithers. Though I think my Naturalize beats it, that’s a preference: I like digital sound to sound organic and real, and I like ambience and foggy distance and other things Naturalize is great at emphasizing. Spatialize is also good at reverb […]
TL;DW: Retro ‘groove crackle’ dither with fuller sound. VinylDither To explain this dither, I’ve got to talk about SACD (DSD) a little. There’s a super-hi-fi digital format known as DSD (direct stream digital). It uses a sample rate in the megahertz, but not as many bits (as few as one, even!) and is tricky to […]
TL;DW: If you like truncation and artificial vibe, try this! HighGlossDither Here’s an Airwindows science experiment! The idea here was to identify things about truncation that some people (maybe crazy people, but people nonetheless) like, and build them into a dedicated dither. This video includes extensive exploration of truncation, TPDF and flat dithers besides HighGlossDither, […]
TL;DW: Single pole highpassed TPDF dither. PaulDither As long as we’re making TPDF dithers, here’s something worth noticing, and a shout-out to a great person. In a public Facebook discussion on dither, Paul Frindle (Sony Oxford, and the DSM 2 ‘prismatic compressor’) suggested his own preferred solution, in general terms: “The one we use most […]
