Tascam DP-01 Owner's Manual

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Starting out with your DP-01TASCAM DP-01 Owner’s Manual 23Mixdown and masteringMixdown and masteringThis is the last stage in making a song, allowing you to create a file which youcan play back into a stereo recorder, and export to a WAV file for further pro-cessing, archiving, recording, etc. on a personal computer (“Exporting the mas-tered stereo tracks” on page 45).Mixdown This is the art of balancing the different tracks you have recordedearlier so that the whole song sounds “right”—everything sounds at the rightvolume, and the song sounds like one piece of music.The most impor-tant pieces ofequipment for a mixdown are oneither side of your head!There are no real rules to mixing, except that if you like the mix, and otherpeople like it, it’s a probably good mix.You don’t have tokeep levels thesame through the whole of yoursong (try raising the level of aguitar during solos, for example).… 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).… Use the EQ HIGH and EQ LOW (tone) controls to add or take away bassand treble from the individual tracks.On the DP-01FXonly, you can usethe internal reverb unit instead ofan external effect processor(“Reverb” on page 64).… If you have an external effect processor attached through the SEND andRETURN loop, adjust the EFFECT SEND levels for each track. This isthe 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.… 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 tomake easy comparisons betweenthe two.… 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.