Mastering - Boss BR-600 Owner's Manual

Mastering

Use the "Mastering Tool Kit" to produce a two-track master
of the bounce tracks with the levels optimized.
What is Mastering Tool Kit?
When creating an audio CD from your recorded songs,
or recording to a similar media, the overall volume
needs to be restrained, so that even the loudest portions
of the songs are handled appropriately on the CD.
However, this often results in an overall lowering of the
volume, resulting in a CD that lacks excitement and
impact.
Moreover, in the low-frequency range, to which the
human ear is not very sensitive, the sound actually
produced might be perceived as being somewhat low in
volume, even though the meter shows that it's at the
maximum level. This also makes it difficult to create
powerful sounds.
With the "Mastering Tool Kit," however, you can
smooth out the differences in volume that occur over
the course of a song, while also correcting the balance in
the low end.
We recommend mastering with the Mastering Tool Kit
in the final stage of creating songs.
* The Mastering Tool Kit features 19 pre-programmed
"Preset Patches" (P01–P19), 19 rewritable "User
Patches" (U01–U19), and 19 "Song Patches," which
are stored individually for each song (S01–S19).
fig.03-380
BR-600
Preset User
Patch Patch
"Mastering Tool Kit Patch List" (p. 207)
In Mastering mode, the following buttons are disabled.
[GIUTAR],[MIC],[LINE],[PAD],[PITCH CORRECTION],
[PAN/EQ/LOOP FX],[TUNER],
[RHYTHM ON/OFF],[ARRANGE],[PATTERN],
[RHYTHM EDIT],[PHRASE TRAINER],[V-TRACK],
[DELETE/MUTE]
fig.03-390
fig.03-400
Memory Card
Song
Song
Patch
fig.03-410
Mastering
* Mastering can be performed only on Tracks 7 and 8. Record
any song you want to master to Tracks 7 and 8 before you
begin the mastering process.
1
Press [REC MODE] several times until MASTERING is
indicated for REC MODE at the left of the screen.
2
Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the recording
source V-Track, and then press [ENTER].
The Mastering screen appears in the display.
Recording source
3
Press CURSOR [ ] [
recording-destination V-track and turn the TIME/
VALUE dial to select the V-Track.
4
Press [EFFECTS].
The Mastering Tool Kit selection screen appears in the
display.
* At this point, the Mastering Tool Kit is automatically
selected as the effect.
Algorithm
P: Preset / S: Song / U: User
Name
Bank
Number
V-Tracks with recorded data.
V-Tracks without data.
] to move the cursor to the
Recording destination
Patch Name
111