Mastering; Mastering Procedure - Boss MICRO BR Owner's Manual

Section 3. Using effects

Mastering

You can apply the "Mastering Tool Kit" to those
two tracks (or stereo) to optimize the level
(volume) of your completed song. And you can
convert mastering data into an audio file (MP3/
WAV formats).
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.
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.
We recommend mastering with the
Mastering Tool Kit in the final stage of
creating songs.
The Mastering Tool Kit features
• 10 pre-programmed "Preset Patches" (P01–
P10)
• 10 rewritable "User Patches" (U01–U10)
• 10 "Song Patches," which are stored
individually for each song (S01–S10).
fig.03-020
MICRO BR
Preset User
Patch Patch
→"Effect Patch List" (p. 121)
In Mastering mode, you can't specify the
connection location of the insert effect (p. 66).
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Memory Card
Song
Song
Patch

Mastering procedure

1.
Press [EXIT] and [UTILITY] several times
to make the display indicate
The MICRO BR is now in Mastering mode.
fig.Disp-mastering-mode.eps
2.
Use CURSOR [
cursor to the V-track indication, and use
VALUE [-] [+] to select the recording-
destination V-track.
fig.Disp-master-v-tr.eps
V-Tracks without data.
Recording
Destination
V-Tracks with recorded data.
3.
Press [EFFECTS].
The mastering tool kit selection screen
appears.
fig.Disp-FX-MT-P01.eps
4.
Use CURSOR [
to select the patch you want to use.
Select the desired patch number from the
preset, song, or user patches.
5.
Press [EXIT] to return to the mastering
screen.
6.
Press [UTILITY].
7.
Use CURSOR [
to adjust the MasterLevel.
Adjusts the overall volume. Raise the
MasterLevel parameter until it is as high as
you can get it without causing the sound to
distort.
fig.Disp-mst-standby.eps
.
] [ ] to move the
] [ ] and VALUE [-] [+]
] [ ] and VALUE [-] [+]