[Frank Stearns]

(Scott Dorsey) writes:

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Not that this was not the case with some earlier digital consoles that
used 24-bit fixed-point arithmetic inside, and some of those were very

Been trying to figure these out as a point of curiosity. Judging by some of the
specs of these supposedly 24 bit consoles, there really didn't seem to be 24 bits
inside, but something less (18? 20?), with the extra bits perhaps being used for the
results of larger multiplies. Is that the case? Or did they just bit-shift and let
the LSBs fall off?

Just guessing, but it seems that given two not so great choices, the one with the
smaller but untruncated word might be better sonically than fixed truncation steps,
especially if your input level was low (for whatever operator oversight -- perhaps
the reason for paying careful attention to gain structure).

Thoughts? Enlightenment?

Frank
Mobile Audio

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