GameOver Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 When I convert from 24-bit to 16-bit it feels like all the hours I've spent on EQ have been in vain. It sounds muffled and "bassy", like the sound is coming from a can. All the nice, high frequencies are cut off. I have listened to the songs on a CD and on the computer, it's the same. I export to pcm wav and of course I use dithering. Sample rate is 44.1 and I have chosen stereo interleaved. What's wrong? Is this the way it should be? I use Cubase SX 2.2.0. (Please help Game Over to finish our new demo! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Work in 16-bit then. You should only be working in 24-bit if you're doing, like... DVD audio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 No soc. You definitely can get something out of using 24 bit samples and dithering to 16. Because of the way dithering works you still can get that increase in fidelity. Is the difference huge? That's arguable, but there's something to be said for recording in 24bit and dithering down anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compyfox Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Can you give me a reference demo? A 24bit snippet and a 16bit snippet? And with what do you render it down? What effects do you use, etc. The more info I have, the better I can help you. And... I work in 48kHz 24bit all the time, even though I don't do any DVD-A or DVD-V stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavous Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 No soc. You definitely can get something out of using 24 bit samples and dithering to 16. Because of the way dithering works you still can get that increase in fidelity. Is the difference huge? That's arguable, but there's something to be said for recording in 24bit and dithering down anyway. You did Impulse Prime in 32 bit float, did you not? Sorry, just a random question sort of relating to the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compyfox Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Internal mathematics of most sequencers are at 32bit float. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 You can't choose how many bits to work in with FL Studio. The program lets you figure that out when you export to wav or mp3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splunkle Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 You can't choose how many bits to work in with FL Studio. The program lets you figure that out when you export to wav or mp3. Thats because its all 32 bit: Internal 32 bit floating point mixing, up to 96kHz stereo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compyfox Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 After 2 weeks still no further info on this issue. Guess it mustn't have been that important after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 Because Game Over released their album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compyfox Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Like I said, mustn't have been that important after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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