14—Working with Track Channels

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Listening as You Bounce

When you bounce tracks, it’s important to know what you’re hearing:
• You don’t want to listen directly to the source track channels.
• You

only

want to listen to your destination track channel(s).
By listening only to the destination track channel(s), you can be confident that what you
hear is what you’ll get in the final recorded bounce. The VS-2480 helps you monitor a
bounce properly by removing the source track channels from the MASTER mix when
you arm your destination track or linked tracks for recording.

Listening to the Destination Track Channels

Make sure that:
• the CH EDIT MIX parameter for any destination track channel is turned on.
• any destination track channel fader is set to its 0 position. You can adjust the fader’s
position to make the bounce fit into your mix if you need to.

Set Up the Destination Tracks

Arm the destination track or linked tracks for recording in order to listen to the source
track channels through the destination track channel(s) as you mix the bounce.

Record-enable the destination track(s):

1. Hold down REC and press the destination track’s TRACK STATUS button so that it
flashes red. With linked tracks, press either one’s TRACK STATUS button.

Set RECORD MONITOR so you can hear the bounce as you rehearse its mix:

1. Press UTILITY.
2. If “PlyRec” doesn’t appear above F4, press PAGE until it does.
3. Press F4 (PlyRec).
4. Set RECORD MONITOR to Source so you can hear what you’ll be bouncing as you
play the project. (With this parameter set to Auto, you won’t hear the bounce as the
project’s playing until you actually record the bounce.)

Mixing the Bounce

Make sure you’ve set the TRACK STATUS button for each source track so that it’s
green, and that you’ve selected the V-Tracks that contain the audio you want to bounce
(Page 151). Likewise, select the V-Track(s) on which you want to record the bounce in
the destination track or track pair.
Since you’ll be listening to each destination track through its track channel, it’s
important that you set each destination track channel so that it doesn’t color the sound
of the bounce. If it does, you may be fooled into making EQ mistakes or other errors as
you mix together the tracks you’re bouncing. Turn off all EQ, dynamics processing and
Aux sends in each destination track’s channel.
It’s a good idea to bounce while listening to all of the project’s other track channels.
This’ll give you a better idea hear how the bounce will sound in the final mix.
You may want to re-set RECORD MONITOR to Auto when you’re done bouncing. To
learn more about the what RECORD MONITOR parameter does, see Page 191.
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