Mixdown and mastering
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TASCAM DP-01 Owner’s Manual
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Mixdown and mastering
This is the last stage in creating a song, allowing you to create a file
which you can play back into a stereo recorder, and export to a WAV
file for further processing, archiving, recording, etc. on a personal
computer (“Exporting the mastered stereo tracks” on page 49).
Mixdown
This is the art of mixing the different tracks you have recorded
earlier so that the whole song sounds “right”—everything is at the right
volume, and the song sounds like one piece of music.
The most important
components of a
mix are your ears—if you think it
sounds good, then it is.
There are no real rules to mixing, except that if you like the mix, and other
people like it, it’s probably a good mix.
You don’t have to
keep levels the
same through the whole song (try
raising the level of a guitar during
solos, for example).
Use the eight track faders to adjust the relative volume of the tracks
and the red
MASTER
fader to adjust the overall level, and watch the
L
and
R
meters at the right of the display to make sure that the mix is not
too loud (if it’s too loud, it will distort, and sound bad).
Use the
EQ HIGH
and
EQ LOW
(tone) controls to boost or cut bass and
treble from the individual tracks.
On the DP-01FX
and DP-01FX/CD,
you can use the internal reverb unit
instead of an external effect proces-
sor (“Reverb” on page 68).
If you have an external effect processor connected through the
SEND
and
RETURN
loop, adjust the
EFFECT SEND
levels for each track. This
is the amount of signal sent from each track to the effect. You can use
this to add effects only to certain tracks. Use the
EFFECT RETURN
con-
trol to adjust the amount of the effect returned to the mix.
Use the
PAN
controls to adjust the left-right position of each track in
the stereo mix.
If you have two
tracks with differ-
ent versions of the same part, you
can use the mute function to make
easy comparisons between the
two.
To cut out the sound of a track, use the
SHIFT
key and the track’s
REC
key to mute (the orange
MUTE
indicator lights for muted tracks) and
un-mute the track.
The track meters
show the level of
the signal recorded on the track,
not the level sent from the track.
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