Hi all: I have two questions. When bouncing all tracks of a project to a single stereo track, is the sound quality supposed to be diminished? In previous projects, I have bounced all my tracks to a single stereo track to which I can apply EQ or some compression before exporting it to a wave or MP3 file. I noticed that the bounced track diminished slitely in quality with respect to the sound I get from all the tracks before bouncing. Then, the quality gets even worse when I export that track to a wave or MP3 file. Now, here is my next question: Could this be due to dithering? I understand dithering to be a process necessary in order to convert a 24 bit audio track or file down to a 16 bit version. I see that there is a dithering option when you select the bounce to track option. Is dithering necessary when you are just bouncing to a single stereo track? I am thinking that it would not be necessary yet as I am still planning to do a little more processing before exporting it to a wave or MP3. Dithering will be necessary once I export that stereo track to wave or MP3. I want to know if, when bouncing to a single track, I should just select no dithering. Any ideas? In my last project, I just skipped the whole bouncing to track step, and exported all my tracks directly to a wave file. The sound quality was much better.