Went halves with my sister and picked this beast up and have been mucking around, just trying to figure it out doing some covers and originals, and cant for the life of me figure out how to master. I'm normally pretty good at technical things, but i'm stumped here. The manual is pretty straight forward in every section except in the section on mastering.

Anyone own/used one of these? Or the Roland BR1200 or the BR1600 or the BR600? I imagine it'd be a similar process on the different models...

Help is good. Thanks.

I have the BR-8, which is a zip disk-based file storage format.

yeah that's a similar thing just with zip instead of CDR isn't it?

Wow mastering...what an idea! Man, never occurred to me with this thing. I record everything through the BR-8 as a preamp of sorts into my pc. There I can do some mastering of sorts if needed...

Yeah that's an option but at present we lack the funding to purchase the necessary cable. Too many broken guitar strings/mikes/leads/amps in the last couple of weeks. Arrr.

Yeah, the controls are like 90% identical. I imagine they might've refined some of the effetcts/whatnot and added some controls for signal noise (I'd hope). But yep, that looks pretty similar.

It does what I need it to do. That's all I ask...

Really? Right now I'm just running an rca-out (BR-8) > stereo-in (pc). Cost 5 bucks + a free audacity. Again, I'm just doing bedroom demos right now, but we've used this set-up (plus pre-amps, the usual etc) to record some alright-sounding stuff in the past.

you mean one of these babies?

Yeah we've got some pretty good stuff out of it as far as bedroom demos go, but it at the same time it also sounds hideously unmastered. Levels are all over the place.

What software are you using on your PC? I need to start saving but right now i can't afford the $1 necessary to dry my wet clothes in the dryer downstairs.

EDIT: oh you're using free Audacity software. I'm a little slow...

Well, you can also control levels coming in, which helps a great deal with maintaining a balanced mix, etc. Just on a basic level, that seems to help me a bunch.

For the band, we have the whole Digi002/ProTools set-up, with a few pre-amps, compressors, nice mics, etc. For home, just Audacity. Pretty boring!

well thanks heaps for your help dude. I just got Audacity and i'm playing around with it now, i'll record some more stuff tomorrow.

Every time I see the name of this brand of keys, I always remember how the dude from Sparks changed his to read "Ronald."

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