TASCAM 2488 User’s Guide
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5 – Mastering
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
menu.
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
AUDIO
CD
menu.
1
Press the
MENU
key and navigate to
AUDIO CD
.
2
Press
ENTER
.
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
AUDIO CD
menu, move the cursor to
PRE
MASTER
and press
ENTER
.
The screen changes to the home screen, but
with the word
MASTERING
at the top left of the
screen.
If any
REC READY
indicators are on, they are
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.
Recording the pre-master
To record the pre-master stereo tracks, press and hold
the
RECORD
key, and then press the
PLAY
key. Both
the
PLAY
and the
RECORD
indicators light.
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.
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
