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MV-8800 Owner’s Manual

Achieving the ideal volume and loudness for an audio CD (Mastering)

Here’s how you can apply a final mastering effect (the Mastering Tool Kit) to your mixdown, in order to produce
a finished song. The Mastering Tool Kit is an effect that separately processes the high, mid, and low-frequency
regions to make the volume more consistent. This will make the entire song sound louder and more “finished,”
so that it can be made into a CD at an optimal volume level.

1.

Press [MASTERING].

The MIXDOWN / MASTERING MENU screen (Screen Guide; p. 196) will appear.

2.

Press[F2](Mastering) or use CURSOR [ ] [ ] to select the MASTERING icon then press

[ENTER].

The SELECT MASTERING SOURCE popup / SELECT AUDIO FILE popup (Screen Guide; p. 198) will
appear.

3.

Move the cursor to the mixdown file (or other file) that you want to master, and press

[F5](Execute).

The MASTERING screen (Screen Guide; p. 199) will appear.
The MASTERING screen shows the major parameters of the mastering tool kit.
Press [PLAY ( )] to play back the WAV file while you adjust the parameters. For details on the parameters,
refer to “MASTERING screen” (Screen Guide; p. 199).

4.

Turn the MASTER knob to MAX.

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If desired, you can create an audio CD without mastering. Perform this step as you wish.

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Mastering can be performed only for 44.1 kHz/16-bit stereo files.

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In the SELECT MASTERING SOURCE popup, you can press [F1](Listen) to audition the file at the cursor
location.

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In the MASTERING screen, you can press [F2](Library) to access the MASTERING TOOL KIT LIBRARY
popup. Here you can select or register your favorite settings.

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If you mastering without setting the MASTER knob to MAX, the volume will be lower. You should leave this knob
at MAX unless you are creating a fade-in or fade-out.
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