Audio Dithering 101 - What is Dither?

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    An explanation and visual breakdown of audio dithering.
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  • @cornbone
    @cornbone Před rokem +6

    this is the BEST explanation of this I've seen!! i finally felt the concept really click in my brain. thank you so much! 7 years later and this video is still so helpful to many people

  • @Masalaofficial
    @Masalaofficial Před 5 lety +13

    The best explanation that can be find for that !
    Tnx !

  • @fureaongaku
    @fureaongaku Před 4 lety +10

    thanks dude, literally no one talks about this topic so well done.

  • @davdcl499
    @davdcl499 Před 9 lety +25

    This was godlike. Thank you, sir.

  • @musicmashane3727
    @musicmashane3727 Před 3 lety +3

    Wow! What an amazing video to explain this using extreme examples so we can actually both hear and see what's going on! I love this and also think it's the best video on Dithering out there that I've come across so far!

  • @Chrisp80
    @Chrisp80 Před 9 lety +3

    Definitely gave me a new insight about dithering. I really had no idea how it worked, just that it was necessary. Thank you!

  • @drampadreg1386
    @drampadreg1386 Před 5 lety +1

    A great video to understanding one of the most important "bits" of digital recording, especially if you are going from analog to digital and things just aren't working like they used to! I think this is the first lesson anyone entering digital recording needs to understand and your video did that quite nicely! Thanks for the helpful information.

  • @theevolversuniverse65
    @theevolversuniverse65 Před 6 měsíci

    Thanks so much for taking the time to organize this video with audio examples because when I read an article on dithering, I understood what it was saying, but I couldn't visualize what it was saying. Now I can!

  • @Spoolz07
    @Spoolz07 Před 9 lety +2

    Now I understand!! Superbly explained, thank you very much. Excellent presentation.

  • @ColorfullHD
    @ColorfullHD Před 8 lety +4

    Very, very good tutorial for newbies like me who just discovered the concept of dithering. It's something not talked about alot but it' so seems to be very useful. Thanks for the tutorial!

  • @matrixate
    @matrixate Před 7 lety +1

    Fantastic job. Absolutely brilliant demonstration.

  • @MixmanD28
    @MixmanD28 Před 8 lety +6

    This is a super-clear discussion of an abstruse topic, and makes a very good case for noise shaping!! :) Thank you!!

  • @MonsieurVersatile
    @MonsieurVersatile Před 7 lety

    Absolutely brilliant, thanks so much for this. Finally understand what dither does (and why) and I've been working with digital audio for over ten years!

  • @janminor1172
    @janminor1172 Před 9 lety +1

    Excellent visualization, great job!

  • @proaudiofiles
    @proaudiofiles  Před 9 lety +18

    New video from Eric Tarr all about dithering.

    • @Guitargraphlessonsonline
      @Guitargraphlessonsonline Před 9 lety +8

      Very informative. I learnt to add dither when reducing bit depth as a kinda rule but I never really understood why or what it's doing. Now I do. Thanks a mil :)

  • @vincentsimeon6742
    @vincentsimeon6742 Před 9 lety +2

    I barely make comments on the net but this vidéo is really the best one to understand dither I ever saw on the net (And I am a french language guy). Congratulations Sir Tarr !

  • @CORNELIUSJOHNSONCJAZZ
    @CORNELIUSJOHNSONCJAZZ Před 8 měsíci

    Great illustration on Dither. I viewed this to refresh myself as a mixer and mastering engineer. I got because I was being a second ear for a song and low and mid level random noises in a supposively mastered version. I a MTSU Recording graduate 2014.

  • @aleksanderliskauskas1266

    probably my second comment on youtube ever; but i think you did an incredible job of explaining this concept. Great job man, subscribed!

  • @mannyleigh2571
    @mannyleigh2571 Před 2 lety

    This is one of the most useful videos I have seen in a long time Thank You!

  • @absinha6209
    @absinha6209 Před 9 lety +1

    Brilliant dude! I had no idea what dithering was. Makes complete sense now! Thanks! You have excellent examples!

  • @seantomalty3062
    @seantomalty3062 Před 4 lety

    Thank you for taking your time to explain! Very well presented. Clear and to the point! subscribed.

  • @northrop_
    @northrop_ Před 5 lety

    One of the best videos I've ever watched, thanks!

  • @ilan.woodward
    @ilan.woodward Před 5 měsíci

    Ive still got loads to learn and loads to understand, but this was so great and informative for a beginner like me. I can hear the differences and sort of see what causes the magic. I just need to dig in with time and practice. Thanks for making it conceptually graspable!

  • @PeterReidJones
    @PeterReidJones Před 7 lety

    Stunning to see the effect in real-time, cool vid man!

  • @MichaelW.1980
    @MichaelW.1980 Před rokem

    When it comes to 24 bit and dithering, I like how Dan Worrall did put it: „If you have to amplify a signal by 100dB to hear a problem, it’s not really a problem.“ But yea, for 16 bit, dithering is kinda mandatory.

  • @nsipid
    @nsipid Před 5 lety

    Great video. Well spoken, informative, and visually satisfying. Thank you.

  • @JamesRJKR
    @JamesRJKR Před 9 lety +2

    Very informative, Great work!

  • @twoHRdrive
    @twoHRdrive Před 3 lety +1

    this was just interesting from a technical standpoint, too... great video

  • @Team-kc8zy
    @Team-kc8zy Před 5 lety

    Thank you so much for explaining so visually

  • @GavinMulhallSilinder
    @GavinMulhallSilinder Před 9 lety +1

    great video Eric, concise and very informative, thanks :)

  • @DepressedCapitalist
    @DepressedCapitalist Před 2 lety

    Excellent explanation! Clear and to the point. Cheers

  • @showingpig01
    @showingpig01 Před 6 lety

    Excellent video! Very easy to follow!

  • @kuldeepgohel29
    @kuldeepgohel29 Před rokem

    you are a GEM MY FRIEND! world won't need schools if CZcams is utilized in such an exceptional way!

  • @imaginarytube
    @imaginarytube Před 9 lety +1

    Thank you, Erik. YOU ARE A GOOD MAN!

  • @denialvanish
    @denialvanish Před 5 lety

    Excellent video! Thanks very much for this.

  • @RaemusGuitar
    @RaemusGuitar Před 7 lety

    Thank you very much :) that was quite educational and the visual demonstrations helped a lot :)

  • @MichaelPopescu
    @MichaelPopescu Před 6 lety

    Excelent demonstration! Thank you!!

  • @rh666
    @rh666 Před 3 lety

    Nicely done video, thank you!

  • @Shem56
    @Shem56 Před 3 lety

    Fantastic explanation! Thanks so much

  • @totfosk
    @totfosk Před 2 lety

    Finally an awesome explanation with an awesome example!!!!! Thanks!!

  • @KennWall
    @KennWall Před 4 lety

    Best explanation ever for this topic!

  • @spbmac
    @spbmac Před 3 lety

    Awesome explanation! Thank you very very much!

  • @cholkymilkmirage4984
    @cholkymilkmirage4984 Před rokem

    this is amazing. so easy to understand

  • @sonikculture
    @sonikculture Před 4 lety

    Superb video..... so well explained... its amazing. Thank you soo much

  • @AkshatMehrotra07
    @AkshatMehrotra07 Před 9 lety +18

    very well made video. great explanation. Never understood dithering like this before. thanks a lot. Could you make one on summing of audio and its effects in ITB mix downs?

    • @matrixate
      @matrixate Před 7 lety

      Hey, did you ever get a answer on bouncing methods? Print?

    • @AkshatMehrotra07
      @AkshatMehrotra07 Před 7 lety +1

      not really.. few opt for print method and others are fine with a simple bounce. Have read a lot of reviews. But i have found that daw bounces sometimes loose quality which can be perhaps retained by print.

  • @ShadyShakra
    @ShadyShakra Před 3 lety

    The cops came in the end. They wanted to bust you for being awesome. Brilliant explanation. You made dithering sound a bit less boring!

  • @jorgebraga3741
    @jorgebraga3741 Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you very much! Your teaching is very good, congratulations!

  • @GEMINDIGO
    @GEMINDIGO Před 3 lety

    Thanks buddy.That was very well explained and very helpful!

  • @lens8933
    @lens8933 Před 4 lety

    thanks. such an amazing explanation

  • @WitchDoktorProductions

    You're brilliant. So thorough

  • @markdavenport2613
    @markdavenport2613 Před 4 lety

    Fantastic! I finally get it. Thank You!

  • @voraceOnline
    @voraceOnline Před 8 lety +1

    Great Work! Thanks!

  • @AndrewThiriot
    @AndrewThiriot Před 4 lety

    Thank you. Great explanation!

  • @slowlearner7778
    @slowlearner7778 Před 5 lety

    Great presentation!

  • @averypiper9833
    @averypiper9833 Před 5 lety +1

    dithering is so cool lol. i dont think it’s boring. thank you fam

  • @LiebnerZappleProject
    @LiebnerZappleProject Před 9 lety +1

    Very helpful! Thx Eric

  • @JohanSegeborn
    @JohanSegeborn Před 5 lety

    Thanks, great explanation!

  • @wahyuarief9046
    @wahyuarief9046 Před 3 lety

    Finally a good one explanation. Than u so so much

  • @momins-topic4470
    @momins-topic4470 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for this important topics 😍

  • @owenkutzscher3038
    @owenkutzscher3038 Před 2 lety +1

    Wow! Killer video!

  • @TheAnthonycoulter
    @TheAnthonycoulter Před 4 lety

    Wow that was very informative!! Thank you!!! 😁

  • @1loveMusic2003
    @1loveMusic2003 Před 6 měsíci

    Best Dither video ever!

  • @jay2xtremefy
    @jay2xtremefy Před 4 lety

    Nice! Thank you for the info.

  • @rongyau1998
    @rongyau1998 Před 4 lety

    Amazing video 🙏🏽

  • @mariacvale
    @mariacvale Před 4 lety

    Thank you! Subscribed.

  • @xyzphyr
    @xyzphyr Před rokem

    Very helpful, thank you!

  • @JJ-mc1tr
    @JJ-mc1tr Před 3 lety

    Very well expanation !!!! Now I understand what dithering mean. Thank you, sir

  • @charleselmore4707
    @charleselmore4707 Před 4 lety

    Very helpful. Thanks!

  • @IntheDAW
    @IntheDAW Před 9 lety +5

    I love this video

  • @zoolmakesmusic4920
    @zoolmakesmusic4920 Před 3 lety

    Great videos!

  • @howtodostuff1244
    @howtodostuff1244 Před 2 lety

    I guess you already know that you're a genius. If it wasn't for you, I would go to my grave never understanding what dithering was. Thank you 😊

  • @AS-ug7gr
    @AS-ug7gr Před 8 lety +1

    Thank you!

  • @Andrew_Renko
    @Andrew_Renko Před 4 lety

    godlike tutorial, thank you

  • @jurapuclin
    @jurapuclin Před 4 lety

    Thanks,,Great video!

  • @MikhalB
    @MikhalB Před 4 lety

    Grate video very informative!

  • @proffessasvids
    @proffessasvids Před 5 měsíci

    Brilliant! Thankyou sir! Xx

  • @bentyreman5769
    @bentyreman5769 Před 9 lety +6

    do you ever dither form 32 bit floating point to 24 bits? I usually don't bother but wonder if it is affecting my quality

  • @nigel_redmon
    @nigel_redmon Před 4 lety

    Very good video-I'm sorry I have to complain about one detail. You probably noticed that the shaped-dither demo starting around 13:57 doesn't really pay off as planned. Unlike the earlier example, it doesn't suck the distortion peaks down by decorrelation, it just buries them in noise. In fact, the lowest distortion peak still sticks out above the noise. The problem is that "noise shaped dither" isn't "dither with shaped noise", it's "dither that has been noise-shaped". The shaping happens as part of the truncation, not to the noise addition before the truncation. It's really "error shaping", to differentiate is from the broadband noise that's added, but to engineers, error and noise are synonyms.

  • @tokero5199
    @tokero5199 Před 6 lety

    Noice! Very good explanation.

  • @piperrac
    @piperrac Před 7 lety

    Thank you so much Eric. This is amazingly helpful to really understand what this process is about. But I do have some questions. Why should we lower resolution when we bounce to a stereo track in mastering (or mixing)? What if we leave it as it is or lower it as less as possible? Are there playback devices that do not work on higher resolutions or are all of them different? What is the criteria to choose the right bit depth? Thanks a lot man. Cheers

  • @readyfortomorrowmyanmar

    Very nice tutorial

  • @lunix8028
    @lunix8028 Před 3 lety

    real nice! thank you

  • @kingshuk1990
    @kingshuk1990 Před 7 lety

    very good Demonstration

  • @ZaccariahMusic
    @ZaccariahMusic Před 9 lety +1

    Oh I get it now, thanks

  • @TheDiamondShoppeBeats
    @TheDiamondShoppeBeats Před 5 lety

    Great video...

  • @jyun7360
    @jyun7360 Před 5 lety

    Finally, I know how dither does the job!

  • @luismrguimaraes
    @luismrguimaraes Před 2 lety

    Cool video. I'd love to see an example of an actual song tho, since I couldn't hear the harmonics of the sine wave from 8.0 bit depth up.

  • @adionne851
    @adionne851 Před 5 lety

    very helpful thanks

  • @CastanuelaStudios
    @CastanuelaStudios Před 5 lety

    Amazing, thx.

  • @emmapablo7321
    @emmapablo7321 Před 6 lety

    very great explanation thanks a lot.. my question is this; i do parallel comp, with high shelf eq on my low and high freq just as u did in this video for dithering, its a way of adding harmonics to my mixes, please do i stand a chance of destroying my mix if i apply dithering? are there differences btw parallel comp with parallel eq and dithering

  • @kaulinman9670
    @kaulinman9670 Před 7 lety

    what a lesson!

  • @herseem
    @herseem Před 4 lety

    Excellent explanation and tutorial, except for the minor technical error - what you described as 2-bit must have been at least 3-bit as 2 bits would only have a maximum of 4 levels. But top marks for making a technically obscure issue easy to understand

  • @rahulwagh5000
    @rahulwagh5000 Před 3 lety

    you said we intentionally add noise but when the bit is reduced the new bit reduction noise will be added and there is a previous one too what if both frequencies crash with each other, so here i recommend always invert the polarity of signal of the noise we add intentionally so it cancels the new noise which is added by bit reduction , what do you all think

  • @PaulArcane
    @PaulArcane Před 8 lety

    Thanks for the video! I have a question, what if you put an EQ with a high cut in the master, let's say around 16kHz, does dithering still works? Also, how do you know how much dither amount to apply?

  • @lazylance3991
    @lazylance3991 Před 3 lety

    thanks this helps a lot! what if I export a master file in 24bit adding some dither noise and it gets bitreduced at a later stage when being converted. will the dither noise help preventing the quantization noise as well?

  • @hendrik2167
    @hendrik2167 Před 7 lety

    So basically i need to do this after i am done with my mix? Should i then put the entire mix to a lower bitrate and add Some noise?

  • @ArmandoBreeveldNL
    @ArmandoBreeveldNL Před 5 lety

    Nice vid! Learned alot! But is this dithering still relavant these days? Because everything has a super high quality standard now right?

  • @hugoborel2096
    @hugoborel2096 Před rokem

    Thank youuuuuu

  • @Arizona9001
    @Arizona9001 Před 4 lety

    is this how you make the brown note?

  • @valevenga797
    @valevenga797 Před 2 lety

    very nice vid