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BR-1200CD
Digital Recording
Workstation
TurboStart
TBS 236
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Adding Reverb to the Recording Track
1. Press the REVERB button.
2. Press F3 (EDIT).
3. Select the type of reverb you’d like to use on the
track: “Room,” “Hall,” or “Plate.”
4. Use
and to select the desired track.
5. Use the VALUE1/PAN knob to adjust the level.
Note
: To add chorus or delay, use the same
procedure, pressing CHORUS/DELAY in Step 1.
Saving a Song
1. Press the UTILITY button.
2. Press F2 for the SONG icon.
3. Press F4 (STORE).
4. When display asks “SAVE CURRENT?”, press
ENTER/YES.
Shortcut
: Hold down the STOP button and then
press the REC button to make the “Save Current?”
screen appear. Press ENTER/YES to save the song.
Mixing Down Your Tracks
When creating an audio CD, you must combine, or
“bounce,” all recorded tracks down to two tracks in a
process called “mixing down.”
Mixing Down (Bouncing) to Track 11/12
1. Press the REC MODE button until the BOUNCE
indicator lights.
2. Press REC TRACK 11/12’s REC TRACK button
so it flashes red and the rest of the tracks’
buttons remain green—Track 11/12’s first
V-Track is selected for recording.
3. Press ZERO to return to the start of the song.
4. Press the REC button so it flashes red, and then
press PLAY to begin the mixdown. Adjust the
faders as necessary during playback.
5. Press STOP when you’ve reached the end of the
song or the point at which you want to stop the
mixdown.
6. Press ZERO, and then PLAY to play back the
mixed down audio.
Mastering with the MTK Effects
After mixing down, “mastering” uses the MTK—for
“Mastering Tool Kit”—effects to smooth out changes
in volume that occur over the course of a song.
1. Press REC MODE several times until the
MASTERING indicator lights.
2. Press the MASTERING TOOL KIT button to turn
the mastering effects on.
3. Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the desired
MTK effect.
4. Press PLAY and adjust the volume of Track
11/12.
5. Press STOP, and then press ZERO to return to
the beginning of the song.
6. Press REC to go into Record Standby mode,
and then press PLAY to begin recording.
7. At the end of the song, press STOP.
8. Press ZERO, and then PLAY to hear your
mastered tracks.
Note
: Since you mixed your song onto Track 11/12
V-Track 1 in the previous section, the BR-1200CD
automatically selected Track 11/12 V-Track 2 for
mastering. You can actually use any V-Tracks you
like. See the
Owner’s Manual
for details.
Burning a CD
The BR-1200CD’s Track at Once operation allows
you to create a CD one song at a time.
1. Place a blank CD-R disc in the CD-R/RW drive.
2. Press the AUDIO CD WRITE/PLAY button.
3. Press F1 to highlight the WRITE icon.
4. Press F1 to highlight the TR. AT ONCE icon.
5. Use the
buttons and the TIME/VALUE dial
to select the pair of V-Tracks you want to write to
CD. (If you mastered your mix as described
above, this’ll be Track 11/12 V-Track 2.)
6. Press F3 (GO).
7. Set the write speed to X8, and press ENTER.
8. When the display shows ”Write Sure?” press
ENTER to begin writing the CD.
9. When the CD is finished burning, the
BR-1200CD asks, “Finalize?”
If you’d like to write additional songs on this
particular CD, don’t finalize it. However, you
must finalize a CD in order to play it on an
ordinary CD player.
10. Press ENTER/YES to finalize the CD, or
EXIT/NO if you want to add more songs.
