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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.
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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.
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.
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In the SELECT MASTERING SOURCE popup, you can press [F1](Listen) to audition the file at the cursor location.
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).
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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.
4.
Turn the MASTER knob to MAX.
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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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5.
Press
[REC ( )]
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The EDIT MASTERING FILE NAME popup (Screen Guide; p. 3) will appear.
6.
Specify a filename.
A default filename is assigned automatically. You can change this if desired.
7.
Press [F5](OK).
The REC indicator (red) will blink, and the MV-8800 will be in mastering-standby.
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If you press [EXIT] in step 9, the EDIT MIXDOWN FILE NAME popup window will close without entering standby mode.
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If you specified mixdown filename is onto a MIXDOWNTR folder that already contains setting, “That name already exists. Overwrite?” message will appear.
If you press [F1](No), you can edit filename again. If you press [F5](Yes), the previous data will be overwritten.
8.
Press [PLAY ( )]
Mastering will begin you selected file in step 3. REC indicator (red) and PLAY indicator (green) will lit.
9.
To stop the mastering, press [STOP ( )].
Mastering will end, and the mastering file will be saved in the MASTERTR folder (REC and PLAY indicator will be dark).
“Mastering finished. Go to CD Burning?” message will appear.
F-button
[F1](No)
[F5](Yes)
Action
The message will close.
You will go to the CUE SHEET screen (Screen Guide; p. 206).
Select this if you want to immediately create an audio CD from the WAV file created by mastering.
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If playing reaches to the end of the selected file for mastering, mastering will stop automatically.
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If a blank, writable CD-R/RW disc is not inserted in the drive when you press [F5](Yes) in step 9, a message of
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