Mixdown and mastering – Tascam DP-01FX/CD User Manual

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Mixdown and mastering

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

and

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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