About The Recording (Rec) Modes - Boss BR-600 Owner's Manual

■ About the recording (REC)
modes
Recording on the BR-600 is separated into three main
modes.
Use whichever mode is suitable in the course of bringing
your song to completion.
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INPUT
TRACK
TRACK
1 Guitar 7
2 Bass 8
3
Vocal
.
.
.
8 Keyboard
INPUT :
Only the instrument sounds or other input sources are
recorded to the tracks. Sounds played back from other
tracks are not recorded.
BOUNCE :
As the sounds on different tracks are played back, they are
recorded together onto another track. In Bounce mode, you
can play back eight tracks simultaneously and record them
all to a single, separate V-Track.
When the input source is selected with INPUT SELECT, you
can also include those sounds in the recording.
You can further include the sounds from the Rhythm in the
recording as well.
BOUNCE MASTERING
TRACK
L
L 7
R
R 8
Mixing down Finishing the song
to two tracks with levels optimized
MASTERING :
Here, you apply the "Mastering Tool Kit" to the two tracks
to which other tracks have been bounced to finish up with a
song with levels (volume) optimized.
The Rhythm cannot be used in this mode.
What is a 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.
"Mastering" (p. 111)
"Mastering Tool Kit Patch List" (p. 207)
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