Dithering samples

JonasEdenbrandt · Post by **JonasEdenbrandt** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:15 pm

I searched but couldn't find this exact topic. Yesterday i decided to stop using 808 samples and also not to program drums in for example Operator. Instead I'm now recording all sounds in my apartment. For example a made a kick out of a few piano notes and banging a pillow and then putting some saturation on it. Any way my question is when i layer for example my kick and then wan't to export it for use in tracks should i aply dither to the sample? When you by sample librarys are these dithered or not?

Torque · Post by **Torque** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:50 pm

I don't know how common dithering a sample is but i wouldn't do it. It just adds noise.

tone-def · Post by **tone-def** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:08 am

You Don't need dither.

here's a tip for a cool sound. Half fill a saucepan with water and knock it against the side of the sink. It makes a really cool wobbly dong sound.

victorgonzales · Post by **victorgonzales** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:44 am

tone-def wrote:You Don't need dither.

here's a tip for a cool sound. Half fill a saucepan with water and knock it against the side of the sink. It makes a really cool wobbly dong sound.

HAHA I noticed that last time I did dishes and got distracted by filling up different things with different levels of water and banging them with different objects. Took forever to finish my dishes.

AK · Post by AK » Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:10 am

No mate, don't dither your samples. There's no need. Dithering is a different process with ( usually ) regard to quantizing a 24 bit signal to 16/44.1/CD and is predominantly a mastering process.

JonasEdenbrandt · Post by **JonasEdenbrandt** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:54 pm

thanks a bunch for the input. You probably saved me alot of work removing noise from the mixdown.