Tascam 788 - Manual (Page 74)

8 – Mastering and backup (CD-R)–Mixdown
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mands (see “MMC and MIDI functions” on
page 101).
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While you are recording the master, synchronization and
the sub-mixer are active, and you can use these features 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, but it is not possible to recall scene or
routing memories (“Routing and scene libraries” on
page 91).
When you have mastered the recording, you can
either re-master the recording (simply press and hold
the
RECORD key and press the PLAY key again) or
proceed to the master check operation (see “Check-
ing the master” on page 74).
Mastering operations are included in the undo list
(see “Undoing and redoing actions” on page 70). If
you make an almost perfect pre-master, but all other
attempts after that fail to achieve the perfection you
are looking for, you can decide to use the almost-per-
fect original, and undo all the less-than-perfect
attempts which followed.
Exiting mastering To exit the mastering opera-
tion and allow normal operation:
1 If the display does not show the home screen
(see “The “home” display” on page 26), press
the
HOME/ESC key).
2 Press the EXIT/NO key to remove the
MASTERING from the display.
Checking the master
When the master has been recorded, you will almost
certainly want to check it. After exiting from the
mastering mode:
1 With the transport stopped, press the MENU
key.
2 Move the cursor to CD-R , and press ENTER .
3 Move the cursor to CHECK MASTER and
press ENTER .
The screen changes to the home screen, but
with the word
MASTER TRACK at the
top of the screen, the title of the current song,
(it can be edited and changed from this screen)
and the total time in minutes and seconds of
the master track.
All monitoring is now from the STEREO selection
only. All other monitor selections are disabled and
cannot be changed.
No faders or other mixer controls (including assign-
ment) have any effect. The only possible control is of
the monitor volume is through the
MONITOR and
PHONES jacks.
The transport controls work in the following way:
• PLAY plays back from the current position to the
end of the master track.
• REW and F FWD move the playback position back-
ward or forward at 10x, 50x, 100x or 1000x the
normal playback speed (as usual), but the wind
“speed” is not shown on screen.
• STOP stops playback or “winding” at the current
position.
• Recording is disabled.
• All location functions are disabled.
• Jog, vari speed, SSA, repeat, etc. are disabled.
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While playing back the master track, it is output from the
STEREO (and DIGITAL OUTPUT) jacks as well as from
the MONITOR and PHONES jacks. It is therefore possi-
ble to use the pre-mastering and master check functions to
mix to a DAT or MD recorder, etc.
Exiting master checking When you have lis-
tened to the master, you may decide to proceed with
burning a CD-R, or you may want to re-master the
song.
In either case, press the EXIT/NO key to return to the
home screen, and restore the assignments, etc. which
were in operation before the master check.