Hi Rich--
It's possible that the low number of bits that get used in a low
level field recording may be the bigger culprit. I've gone this
route which, indeed, you may already be doing. I carefully equalize
as I normalize every field recording trying to minimize the "resonant
grunge" with 2-3 passes of Waves Q10 or Waves Ren 6 (which I find
smoother). The noise is not in perfectly discrete bandwidths but it
does have some more noticeable concentrations in the low to lower-mid
range. Important to eq at the speaker level I intend to play it at.
After the amplitude is high, I do the head/tail fades when burning
the file to audio CD using most of the 16 bits for most of the fade.
I also notice that after I have a saturated, fat file, the processing
outcome if I must do additional equalization or file mixing comes out
much closer to what I heard in preview mode. I believe all waves
plugs dither in 32 bit.
Rob D.
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>Well, I figured it didn't matter before when I was running standard
>mics.
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>But, I got a few low noise mics and need to understand dither more.
>In recording "faint field" sound with a low noise mic, should I be
>running "dither" on for edits?
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>There appears to be a trade off on using this with little guidance as
>to when to use it and not for "faint field".
>
>Anybody know about this stuff here?
>I am just confused.
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