Boss Audio Systems BR-900CD owner manual What is Mastering Tool Kit?

Mastering

Use the “Mastering Tool Kit” to produce a two-track master

of the bounce tracks with the levels optimized.

What is Mastering Tool Kit?

When creating an audio CD from your recorded songs, or recording to an MD or similar media, the overall volume needs to be restrained, so that even the loudest portions of the songs are handled appropriately on the CD or MD. However, this often results in an overall lowering of the volume, resulting in a CD or MD that lacks excitement and impact.

Moreover, in the low-frequency range, to which the human ear is not very sensitive, the sound actually produced might be perceived as being somewhat low in volume, even though the meter shows that it’s at the maximum level. This also makes it difficult to create powerful sounds.

With the “Mastering Tool Kit,” however, you can smooth out the differences in volume that occur over the course of a song, while also correcting the balance in the low end.

We recommend mastering with the Mastering Tool Kit in the final stage of creating songs.

*The Mastering Tool Kit features 19 pre-programmed “Preset Patches” (P01–P19), 19 rewritable “User Patches” (U01–U19), and 19 “Song Patches,” which are

stored individually for each song (S01–S19).

fig.01-800

BR-900CD Memory Card

Preset	User	Song
		Song
Patch	Patch
		Patch

“Mastering Tool Kit Patch List” (p. 205)

*In Mastering mode, the following buttons are disabled after you set the recording source and destination and return to the Play screen. In addition, you cannot change the point to which the insert effects are connected (p. 87).

[INPUT SELECT], [TUNER], [PAN/EQ],

[LOOP EFFECTS], [PITCH CORRECTION], [PHRASE TRAINER], [ARRANGE/PATTERN/OFF], [EDIT], [RHYTHM PAD], [V-TRACK], [DELETE/MUTE]

1.Press [REC MODE] several times until “MASTERING” is indicated for REC MODE at the left of the screen.

2.Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the recording source V-Track, and then press [ENTER].

The Mastering screen appears in the display.

Recoding source

■: V-Tracks with recorded data.

❐ : V-Tracks without data.

*At this point, the Mastering Tool Kit is automatically selected as the effect.

3.Press CURSOR [ ] [ ] to move the cursor to the recording-destination V-track and turn the TIME/

VALUE dial to select the V-Track.

Recoding-distination

The REC TRACK button for the track selected as the recording destination flashes in red.

4.Press [EFFECTS].

The Mastering Tool Kit selection screen appears in the display.

Algorithm	P: Preset / S: Song / U: User
	Bank	Number Patch Name
Name

102