BR600 and Mastering

[Saijinn Maas]

Is it necessary to bounce all tracks to a stereo pair BEFORE you master?

I recorded 5 tracks and then tried to master. I selected 78v1 as the location to master to, but when I play it to mix and do the MTK, I hear nothing. The manual leads me to believe that in order to master I first have to bounce as stated above, but it isn't entirely clear on that being a step that is necessary.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

[SteveB]

SMS - I would say yes. Bounce to a stereo pair, and then engage your Mastering selection.

[64Guitars]

Yes, you have to create a final 2-track mix in bounce mode. Then you go into mastering mode and specify those two tracks as the source, and another two tracks as the destination.

The Micro BR is the only recorder in the BR series that masters from the output of the mixer section rather than asking you to specify the source track pair.

With my BR-864, I usually find that I'm happy with the sound of my 2-track mix, so I never bother with mastering. I figure, if the 2-track mix sounds good, why would I want to change it by mastering? On the other hand, if you think your final mix could do with some EQ or compression, then mastering can be useful.

[Saijinn Maas]

Thanks SteveB and 64g. I think I was so used to how the MBR does it, that it was throwing me off on what I was expecting to happen on the br600.

So, you can still export to WAV without ever having run it through the MTK??  Hmm  Interesting...