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Here’s a little bit of bounce trickiness to be aware of.
When you bounce, you record a mix of the V-Tracks you’re bouncing.
Everything in this mix is locked together: Levels, panning, EQ, and effects can
only be changed by re-doing the bounce with a new mix. This means that, as
you bounce, you’ll want to try and anticipate how it’ll sound alongside other
things you’ve yet to record. This can require some guesswork.
The JUNO-Gi’s V-Tracks make this guesstimating worry-free, though,
since you have so many of them you don’t have to erase your original
V-Tracks after you bounce. You can hang onto them in case you need
to fix the bounce later on. Simply set their tracks to use other V-Tracks
unless and until you need to re-do the bounce.
How to Bounce
Preparing for the Bounce
1
Go to the TRACK SETTING screen and create a mix of the tracks you’ll
be bouncing. (Let’s call them the “source” tracks.)
•
Work out their levels—
relative to each other and set a healthy
overall level. You can use the digital recorder’s faders, or the
onscreen Level settings.
•
Set their stereo positions—
if you’re bouncing in stereo.
•
Add any reverb you want—
using each track’s Reverb setting.
•
Apply any EQ you want—
as described on page 89 of the
Owner’s
Manual
.
•
If you want to add an insert effect to a track—
use the INSERT FX
LOCATION screen described on page 108 in the
Owner’s Manual
to assign the insert effect processor to the track, and then
customize the effect by pressing 6 (EFFECT) on the RECORDER
screen and adjusting the effect’s settings as desired.
2
If you’re comping, find the bits you want to use and play the song
a few times to rehearse switching between source tracks using the
digital recorder’s faders.
There are a few reasons you might want to bounce.
•
You can free up V-Tracks for more recording—
When you bounce two or
more V-Tracks in mono onto a new V-track, or three or more in stereo
onto a pair of V-Tracks, you reduce the number of V-Tracks you’re using.
After the bounce we showed you on page
12, we can switch Tracks 3-6 to new, unused
V-Tracks and record more stuff. Our four voices
are now on Track 8’s first V-Track.
Track
7
Track
8
Track
6
VT 1
Voice 1,
Voice 2,
Voice 3,
and
Voice 4
VT 1
Track
5
Track
4
Track
3
VT 2
VT 2
VT 2
VT 2
Track
1
VT 1
Piano L
Track
2
VT 1
Piano R
Stereo
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Comping—
When you’ve recorded several attempts at a performance
on different V-Tracks, you can bounce the best bits onto a single new
V-Track. This process is called “comping.”
Verse 1
Verse 2
Verse 3
Verse 1
Verse 2
Verse 3
Verse 1
Verse 2
Verse 3
Verse 1
Verse 2
Verse 3
Let’s say you’ve recorded three attempts at a lead vocal.
The first take has the best Verse 1, the second has the
best Verse 2, and the third has the best third verse.
Why not bounce together all of the best verses
into one great performance on a single V-Track?
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Bouncing can make things simpler in the final mix—
If you’d like to pull
together a group of instruments or voices so you don’t have to deal
with them later during the mix, you can bounce them together into a
“submix.”
