Mastering; Pre-Mastering; Recording The Pre-Master - Tascam 2488 User Manual

When all your tracks have been recorded, it's time to
make a stereo mix onto CD. These operations are all
controlled from the
AUDIO CD
NOTE
The operations all deal with songs on the currently-
selected partition. If the song you want is on another
partition, you must select another disk partition as the
active partition before proceeding (see "Selecting the
active partition" on page 65).
All mastering operations are accessed from the
menu.
CD
1
Press the key and navigate to
MENU

Pre-mastering

The start of the pre-mastered material is always the
00:00:00.00 point, and the end of the pre-mastered
material is the OUT point.
Before starting the pre-mastering process, make sure
that if you are using the sub-mixer, this is assigned to
the stereo outputs.
1
Set the OUT point at the position where you
want the pre-mastered material to stop.
2
On the menu, move the cursor to
AUDIO CD
and press ENTER
MASTER
The screen changes to the home screen, but
with the word

MASTERING

screen.

Recording the pre-master

To record the pre-master stereo tracks, press and hold
the key, and then press the
RECORD
the and the
PLAY RECORD
Recording always starts (regardless of the current
position) at 00:00:00.00.
The mastering records the effects of all mixer set-
tings and effect settings, etc.
If you do not stop the recording before the OUT
point, it will automatically stop at the OUT point. If
you stop the recording at the OUT point, the master
recording will stop there, and the length of the track
will be from the 00:00:00.00 point to the point where
the recording stopped.
NOTE
The minimum length for a CD track is four seconds.
Make sure that all mastered recordings are at least this
length.
menu.
AUDIO
.
AUDIO CD
PRE
.
at the top left of the
key. Both
PLAY
indicators light.
2
Press .
ENTER
If any indicators are on, they are
REC READY
turned off, and they cannot be turned on again
while pre-mastering is being carried out.
While pre-mastering, transport controls work in the
usual way, except that:
• Playback and fast forward will stop at the OUT
point, and the playback position cannot move past
this point.
• Auto punch operations are disabled.
• Jog and trim are disabled.
• Pitch control and SSA are disabled.
• Direct location is disabled.
• Recording is carried out as explained below.
The maximum length for a CD track recorded from the
2488 is 80 minutes. Tracks made from the 2488 should
not exceed this length,
During the mastering operation, all channel opera-
tions (EQ, send, fader/pan) can be carried out, either
from the 2488's controls, or by means of MIDI com-
mands.
NOTE
While you are recording the master, synchronization
and the sub-mixer can be used to add synchronized
MIDI sound sources to the stereo master mix.
You can set and edit effect parameters and recall
effects from the effect libraries while mastering.
It is also possible for you to make assignments while
mastering, and recall scene memories.
When you have mastered the recording, you can
either re-master the recording (simply press and hold
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