Eighth inch plywood will be a good shim. Glue the area down with a good latex sub-floor adhesive and use a three-eighths inch staple with a hammer tacker to hold it down while the glue dries. If the sub-floor is fastened down well you will not get any bounce. A ¾ inch hardwood floor fastened with 2 inch fasteners will be held in place well as the fasteners will still penetrate into the sub-floor almost an inch fastening the flooring and the shim in place. I have used roll roofing, mineral coated asphalt saturated felt, or now asphalt saturated fiber glass, to shim up whole rooms about an eighth inch without gluing it down and had no problems over the last 35 years. Asphalt saturated felt will not compress unless it melts in a fire. I don't recommend adding over a quarter inch, or two layers of the roofing felt.
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