Teac 2488 - Manual (Page 62)

5 – Mastering
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TASCAM 2488 User’s Guide
If you finalize the disc at this stage, you cannot
record any further songs on it. If you do not
finalize the disc, you will not be able to play it
on ordinary audio CD players.
NOTE
If you choose not to finalize the disc at this point, you
can finalize it later, without recording another song.
4 Press ENTER to continue, and EXIT if you
want to choose a different song.
5 You are asked if you are sure that you want to
record the song. Press
ENTER to proceed with
the recording, or EXIT to cancel.
6 If there is not enough space on the internal
disk for preparation, or on the CD disc for the
song that you have selected for recording, the
2488 gives an appropriate error message.
7 The 2488 makes an image of the song on disc
(to allow for smooth and easy transfer) and
then starts writing it to the CD.
• The top line of the display gives an indica-
tion of the time remaining for the operation.
• While the image and writing to disc is going
on, all the 2488 controls are disabled, and no
action is possible.
NOTE
DO NOT TURN OFF the 2488 or the CD-RW drive while
this writing operation is taking place. You will almost
certainly spoil the disc and may corrupt the song data.
Two seconds of silence are added to the end of each
track recorded to disc in this way.
8 To check the recorded disc, use the CD PLAYER
option described below.
Finalizing the disc
When you have recorded the last track on the disc,
you must finalize it in order to allow it to be played
on ordinary CD players, but you can check the
recorded tracks using the 2488’s
CD PLAYER function.
The CD-RW drive must contain an unfinalized disc
before you start the process.
1 Make sure the 2488 is in “normal” mode, that
is, not in the master check mode or mastering
mode. On the
AUDIO CD menu, move the cursor
to FINALIZE and press ENTER .
• A pop-up screen asks if you are sure. Press
ENTER to continue, EXIT to stop the finalize
process.
• If you continue, the CD session is closed and
the finalizing material (Table of Contents or
TOC) is written to the disc.
NOTE
You cannot record further tracks on a finalized disc. You
can only finalize a disc once, and you cannot unfinalize
a disc.
The CD-RW drive eject button is locked while writing is
going on. You can only eject the disc after writing has
finished.
If you use CD-RW media, you cannot play the resulting
discs in most audio CD players.
Recording to CD-R (multiple tracks)
When recording multiple tracks, the tracks can be
recorded in any order, and varying lengths of silence
can be added.
Once a CD has been made in this way, no further
tracks can be added, as the CD is automatically final-
ized at the end of the operation.
There must be a recordable CD disc in the drive
before starting this operation.
1 Make sure the 2488 is in “normal” mode, that
is, not in the master check mode or mastering
mode. On the
AUDIO CD menu, move the cursor
to CD WRITER and press ENTER .
The 2488 checks the CD-RW drive. If there is a
valid disc in the drive, the display shows a list
of the songs which have been mastered on the
current partition.
NOTE
If a song has been recorded, but has not been mastered,
it will not appear in the list.
If you have a song in another partition which you want
to add to the list in the current partition, you should
copy it from the old partition to the current partition
(see “Copying songs” on page 29).
Use the wheel to scroll through the list of
songs, and when you highlight a song that you