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The UBK Happy Fun Time Hour

Hello and welcome to the UBK Happy Fun Time Hour

My name is Gregory Scott and I am not joined tonight by Nathan Daniel.

It is late at night.

Nathan is home, attending to some sort of data crisis.

Maybe he'll share that with you next time. Maybe not.

Anyway, you know what happens when I fly solo kids?

It means we're going to go a little deeper than usual,

and it means I'm going to get extra nerdy.

So buckle up. Here we go.

Thank you. extra nerdy, so buckle question from our friend, Demian Norvel. Demian writes, I've been tinkering with some non-linear emulation plugins such as console emulations,

tape, hardware, etc.

On a mix I'm working on, an analyzer reveals a lot of low-level activity that becomes pretty

dense above 2K.

The noise is sitting at negative 72 dBFS and is audible when I crank the mains.

I'm not troubled by the noise, but is adding

dither still necessary when going to 16-bit? I can do a listening comparison, but as a developer,

maybe you have a, quote, mathematical answer. Well, this is near and dear to my heart. I guess I'm

not exactly sure what noise you're talking about and what

activity you're seeing above 2K, but I have some guesses, because this is common. This is, in fact,

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