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Summary: Learn how to mixdown tracks on an analog reel to reel 4 track tape recorder to record songs in this music instructional video.
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Questions & AnswersFor Expert Village, I'm Kurt Glaser at KGB Studios. Well now that we've got all the tracks recorded, we also have them mixed down. We need to find out in the final steps, how to master a CD. So we're going to take a peek at some software that we use to actually master that right now. Okay, so on this session here, what I'm going to do, is actually import the audio from the reel to reel through the mixer that I've mixed down, into this application here. It's a great program that I've been using for many years. It's called Sound Forage and it does a great job of pre-mastering the audio from the reel to reel. I do capture it at a higher bit rate and I'll show you that right now. So I'll click on the record one. And instead of 48, 16 mono, we'll change that and we'll actually make this stereo. Okay, so that is now ready. We'll arm it and then we'll actually record the signal at this point. And we'll go through the recording piece and we'll be returning there to show you what happens after we have it. Well, here we are in front of the mixer again. We have got front left, front right, rear left, rear right from the output jacks of the reel to reel 4-track recorder. And, you know, just to add another piece, we've got six tracks from the ping pong piece in here. But we can also add one more piece to get a total seven tracks to add another vocal, like a harmony or something. We can add one more microphone, if you have a session player that wants to do one more piece of sweetening or an added vocal. All of this stuff will be second generation which is characteristic of the noise for or the noise value on the mixer itself. And that's an important piece to keep in mind when you're recording on analog tape. With digital tape, you don't have that issue. But this piece, this is set up for mastering now. And what you'll do is you'll run through the series and you'll set these controls, the equalization curves and also the volume controller. You'll set those to the values that you want. I tend to leave the sweetening mic up quite a ways up, unless nobody's using it and then I literally do unplug it and I do not use it in that particular track. But in this case, we're going to add one more piece in the master track. We have our volume set now on the mixer. We've got our EQs adjusted the way it's supposed to sound and now we'll be ready to produce the final master take.
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