Tascam D00871320A Owner's Manual

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Mixdown and mastering26 TASCAM DP-01 Owner’s ManualStarting out with your DP-01Mixdown and masteringThis is the last stage in creating a song, allowing you to create a filewhich you can play back into a stereo recorder, and export to a WAVfile for further processing, archiving, recording, etc. on a personalcomputer (“Exporting the mastered stereo tracks” on page 49).Mixdown This is the art of mixing the different tracks you have recordedearlier so that the whole song sounds “right”—everything is at the rightvolume, and the song sounds like one piece of music.The most importantcomponents of amix are your ears—if you think itsounds good, then it is.There are no real rules to mixing, except that if you like the mix, and otherpeople like it, it’s probably a good mix.You don’t have tokeep levels thesame through the whole song (tryraising the level of a guitar duringsolos, for example).z Use the eight track faders to adjust the relative volume of the tracksand the red MASTER fader to adjust the overall level, and watch the Land R meters at the right of the display to make sure that the mix is nottoo loud (if it’s too loud, it will distort, and sound bad).z Use the EQ HIGH and EQ LOW (tone) controls to boost or cut bass andtreble from the individual tracks.On the DP-01FXand DP-01FX/CD,you can use the internal reverb unitinstead of an external effect proces-sor (“Reverb” on page 68).z If you have an external effect processor connected through the SENDand RETURN loop, adjust the EFFECT SEND levels for each track. Thisis the amount of signal sent from each track to the effect. You can usethis to add effects only to certain tracks. Use the EFFECT RETURN con-trol to adjust the amount of the effect returned to the mix.z Use the PAN controls to adjust the left-right position of each track inthe stereo mix.If you have twotracks with differ-ent versions of the same part, youcan use the mute function to makeeasy comparisons between thetwo.z To cut out the sound of a track, use the SHIFT key and the track’s RECkey to mute (the orange MUTE indicator lights for muted tracks) andun-mute the track.The track metersshow the level ofthe signal recorded on the track,not the level sent from the track.