Mixdown; Routing Tape Returns To The Main Outputs - Mackie Digital 8 Bus Owner's Manual

Mixdown

Now you have all your tracks recorded and
you're ready to mixdown to two tracks. Tracking
and overdubbing require care from the recording
engineer, but the focus there is on the perfor-
mances. In tracking it's important to get a good
sound, but it's more important to keep the musi-
cians really in it, keep the pace up, and be ready
to snag that killer track when it happens.
Good mixing, however, focuses solely on the
engineer and requires an emphasis on precision
and meticulous setup. Creatively, you must blend
the tracks so they're brilliant together; techni-
cally, you must take into account the sound of
MASTERS
MIC/LINE
(TRACK)
6-22
Starting a New Session
SHIFT
1-24
25-48
TAPE IN
(MONITOR)
49-72
EFFECTS
BANK SELECT
REC/RDY REC/RDY
ASSIGN
WRITE
L
R
MASTER OUT
home and car speakers, mono compatibility, and
human perception changes under different lis-
tening conditions, not to mention tonal and level
balance between songs, and meeting the techni-
cal criteria for tape and disc mastering.
Before proceeding, it's a good idea to "zero"
the console by recalling Snapshot 00, or any
other snapshot you may have reserved for nomi-
nal settings. This way you're starting afresh,
which can eliminate problems later on down the
road. Refer to the "Recording — Mixdown
Hookup Diagram" on page 6-77 while reading
this section.
ASSIGNMENT
ASSIGN ASSIGN
BUS 1 BUS 2
ASSIGN ASSIGN
BUS 3 BUS 4
ASSIGN ASSIGN
BUS 5 BUS 6
ASSIGN ASSIGN
BUS 7 BUS 8
ASSIGN ASSIGN
L-R ROUTE TO
TAPE
ASSIGN
WRITE
MASTER OUT
L R
CR
MAIN
L R
CR
NEAR FIELD
L R
Routing Tape Returns to the Main
Outputs
TO ROUTE TAPE RETURNS TO THE MAIN
OUTPUTS
From the console:
1. Select Fader Bank 2 by pressing the
TAPE IN (25–48) button.
2. Press the L-R button in the Bus
Assignment Section.
3. Press the ASSIGN button on all the
channels that are going to be mixed
down to two tracks.
4. Connect the MASTER L-R outputs on
the Digital 8•Bus' rear panel to the in-
puts of your two-track master tape
recorder.