5 – Mastering
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TASCAM 2488
User’s Guide
the
RECORD
key and press the
PLAY
key again) or
proceed to the master check operation (see below).
Mastering operations are included in the undo list. 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 operation and allow normal
operation:
1
If the display does not show the home screen,
press the
HOME
key.
2
Press the
EXIT
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
On the
AUDIO CD
menu, move the cursor to
CHECK MASTER
and press
ENTER
.
The screen changes to show the
CHECK MASTER
screen, which shows the title of the current
song and its running time.
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
con-
trols.
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, varispeed, SSA, repeat, etc. are disabled.
NOTE
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
possible 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 disc, or you may want to re-master the
song.
In either case, press the
EXIT
key to return to the
home screen, and restore the assignments, etc. which
were in operation before the master check.
Trimming the master
You may sometimes want to trim the beginning or the
end of a master track after checking it. For example,
you may have made a perfect mix, except that there is
too much “dead time” or a cough, fret noise, etc.
before the start of the track, or there may be too much
time after the end of the track, as the OUT point was
not set correctly.
To correct these, without having to do the whole mix
again:
1
Make sure the 2488 is in “normal” mode, that
is, not in the master check mode or mastering
mode.
2
Move the playback position to the approxi-
mate position where you want to trim (either
the start or the end of the master).
