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RE: [L-OT] normalize before mastering or not

2001-11-16 by Gilles Ruppert

sorry to tell you: you are wrong, every digital calculation brings you
quantization noise due to quatization / rounding error (error which comes
when you calculate. Due to the reduced stepes (65536 at 16 bit & 16777216 at
24bit), the calcualation process always has to round to the closest step.
Gilles


> >See my last mail:
> >more processes, worse quality.
> maybe i'm wrong, but i thought that was only true in cases
> wherein dithering
> and/or noise-shaping processes were repeatedly applied.
> ?
> best,
> dt / s-c

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