Dither?

[ENW]

Hello all,

My CD was tracked at home (Protools LE) then mixed & mastered at a local commercial facility.

I want to self-produce MP3's (from the CD) using Portools LE. I intend to import the 16-bit AIFF files from the CD into Protools, then bounce them down as MP3's. The importing process should convert the 16-bit AIFF files into 24-bit WAV files for use in Protools. I understand that the conversion isn't the best option but it is what I have readily available.

The final destination of these MP3's will be for use in production libraries where I will not know if they intend to do any futher processing to the files.

As I understand it, any time we go down from 24-bit to anything lower, we dither.

I have...
Power Dither.
Waves IDR Dither.
Digirack Dither (from Protools).

Any suggestions for choice of Dither or should I avoid Dithering all together in this situation?

Thanks,

ENW

P.S.
My degree is in music. Sometimes this recording stuff makes my head hurt.

[richiebee]

Why will the conversion process change your AIFF's to 24 bit?

Just stick with 16 bit. They're gonna be MP3's.

[brandondrury]

Yeah, I'm with Richiebee on this one. I think you are overthinking this one. Simply rip the mastered cd and convert to mp3. I use Razorlame (it's free) but there are many good mp3 converters out there.

Brandon

[ENW]

Thanks guys. Keeping things at 16-Bit for the MP3 production sounds like a simple solution.

ENW