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Pro Tools and the Truncated Bits
03/09/1998

For all of you Pro Tools users out there with 16 bit systems, here is a great tip from one of the Sweetwater Sales Engineers:

Recording directly to disk (ie creating an audio track and getting it's input from one of the analog ins of your I/O interface) with any of the 18 bit or higher converters on the market will cause a 16 bit Pro Tools system to simply truncate any LSB (Least Significant Bits) beyond the 16 bit word that Pro Tools can record.

If you bring the audio data into an aux input, insert your favorite dither plug-in across the aux input, send the output of that aux to a bus, and then create your audio track and get it's input from the bus you sent the aux to, you will be recording a dithered, rather than truncated 16 bit word.





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March 31 - What is the Significance of Thermal Calibration?
March 30 - A More "Correct" Version On Audio Bit Resolution
March 27 - More On Burning Non Standard Data CD-ROMs
March 26 - "What is the difference between a Single Coil and Humbucker style guitar pickup?"
March 25 - Recordable CD-ROM Compatibilities
March 24 - TT Patch Bay Wiring Problems
March 23 - More On Ground Loops and Isolators In Audio
March 20 - More On Syncing Live Performance With Sequencers
March 19 - Phantom Power and Line Level Gear
March 18 - Guitar Hum, Grounding, and Safety
March 17 - Digital Converter Quality
March 16 - Making CD-ROMs From Non-Standard File Formats
March 13 - Digital Connections
March 12 - Syncing Sequencers To Live Performance
March 11 - Recording: Bits Versus Sampling Frequency
March 10 - Eliminating Ground Buzz
March 09 - Pro Tools and the Truncated Bits
March 06 - Mackie HUI MIDI Questions
March 05 - "Why Does So Much Equipment These Days Have 'Software' Versions?"
March 04 - Unlocking The Transport On TASCAM DA-98/88/38 After Error Detection
March 03 - Getting Your Gear in Sync (BRC, ADAT, XP-80)
March 02 - More On Getting Rid of Guitar Hum


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