The following article will guide through mastering down to a stereo track (i.e. Tracks 7 and 8) and then exporting this mastered track to your computer.
Mastering (Mixing Down)
- Press MENU.
- Cursor to "MASTERING," and then press ENTER.
- Turn the dial clockwise to set MASTERING to the ON position.
- Press EXIT twice to return to the main screen. The display shows the track(s) to which you'll be mastering underneath the word "MASTERING." By default, “TR78-VMST” is displayed for the stereo virtual mastering track belonging to Tracks 7 and 8.|
- Press the ZERO button to return to the beginning of the song.
- Play back the song and use the track faders to adjust the volume balance.
- Press the ZERO button to return to the beginning of your song.
- Press REC, and then press PLAY.
- When the song has finished playing, press STOP. A "PREVIEW" window will appear.
- Press PLAY to hear the mastered (mixdown) track. A stereo mix of the song has now been recorded onto TR78-VMST.
- Press EXIT twice to return to the main screen.
- To turn off Mastering:
a. Press MENU.
b. Cursor to "MASTERING," and then press ENTER.
c. Turn the dial clockwise to set MASTERING to the OFF position.
d. Press EXIT twice to return to the main screen.
Exporting to a Computer
Now that the tracks have been mastered (mixed) to "TR78-VST", these tracks can be exported to a computer as a stereo audio file. The BR Wav Converter software is needed in order to accomplish this. The software can be downloaded from: BOSS - BR-800 | Digital Recorder
After downloading the software:
- Connect a USB cable between the computer and the BR-800.
- On the BR-800, press the MENU button.
- Cursor to "USB," and then press ENTER.
- Cursor to "WAV CONVERTER," and then press ENTER twice and then wait for 30 seconds before moving to step 5--this give the BR-800 time to communicate with the computer.
- After 30 seconds, launch the BR WAV converter software by double clicking the "BRWC" icon from the software that was downloaded on the computer.
This can be found by double-clicking on the downloaded BRWC310.zip file, then double-clicking on the "BRWC310" folder, and then double-clicking on the BRWC.exe file to open the BR WAV converter software. - Once the BR WAV converter program is open, click on the down arrow in the Drive menu and then select the BR-800 drive.
Note: If an incorrect drive letter is selected, an error message will appear. Just keep selecting a different drive letter until a song name appears in the Song section beneath Drive. - Select the song you wish to work with from the Song menu. This will be the song that was mastered (mixed) from the steps in the "Mastering (Mixing Down)" earlier.
Note: Green squares appear on a grid that shows the Tracks in the song.
The horizontal columns—from left to right—represent the Tracks:
The vertical columns—from top to bottom—represent the V.Tracks (or Virtual Tracks):
- Click on Tracks 7 and 8, virtual track 8 so that they change to orange
Note that these are the exact same tracks as "TR78-VMST" from the "Mastering (Mixing Down)" section above.
In other words, Tracks 7/8 Virtual Track 8 are identical to "TR78-VMST".
- Click on the L/R button for tracks 7/8 until it turns green--to link them together so that the exported audio file will be stereo.
- Click EXPORT and then click GO.
- Select the DESKTOP as the destination folder.
- Type a file name of your choice into the FILENAME box, and then click SAVE.
Your BR-800 V-Tracks have been converted into .WAV files and are now on your computer’s desktop. - Quit the BR Wav Converter software. On the BR-800, press EXIT, and then ENTER to safely eject the recorder from your computer.