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

Recording/Playing Back a Song

INPUT:

Only the instrument sounds or other input sources are recorded to the tracks. Sounds played back from other tracks are not recorded.

BOUNCE:

As the sounds on different tracks are played back, they are recorded together onto another track. In Bounce mode, you can play back eight tracks simultaneously and record them all to a single, separate V-Track.

When the input source is selected with INPUT SELECT, you can also include those sounds in the recording.

You can further include the sounds from the Rhythm in the recording as well.

You can also select the CD-R/RW drive as the recording destination (p. 59).

MASTERING:

Here, you apply the “Mastering Tool Kit” to the two tracks to which other tracks have been bounced to finish up with a song with levels (volume) optimized.

* The Rhythm cannot be used in this mode.

What is a 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.

“Mastering” (p. 102)

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

Procedure

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1.Press [REC MODE] repeatedly until “INPUT” is indicated for REC MODE at the left of the screen.

2.Press [REC].

[REC] flashes in red and the BR-900CD enters the recording standby state.

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3.Press [PLAY].

The [REC] and REC TRACK buttons stop flashing in red and instead light solidly, and recording starts.

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4.When you finish recording, press [STOP].

The REC TRACK button lights alternately in orange and green, indicating that track contains recorded data.

*You cannot play back sounds recorded for less than one second.

*During updating, “Keep power on!” appears in the upper line of the display, while the lower line shows what is being processed.

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