bouncing

[German]

what is bounce?
and how can i bounce?
i'm new in this....help!!

[kmar]

Very Simply, a bounce is when you take 1 or more tracks that have already been recorded, and put them on another empty track. Example: You have guitar, bass, and drums on track 1 , 2, 3, in that order. You want to put them all together on track 4.
1. while playing back from start, raise the fader on each track until you have a good mix. 2. right above the fader for each track, turn the "L" "R" pan pod to "R". That's because track 4 is on the right "bus".
3. Engage track 4 to be ready to record and go! You are now "bouncing" tracks 1-3 to track 4. Watch to be sure your new record levels to track 4 are at the optimum level- not too "hot", and not too low. Hope it helps.

[T.J.Hooker]

I Used to use a Portaone cassette Fourtrack. It sounded like Mud mainly because of it's age. But it was all I could afford.Cassettes are funny like that unless you use typeII high biased.Then even still the're shortlived.But, then I got an awsome deal on a portable DAT recorder. I would mix all four tracks to two on the DAT. Then back to one on the porta. And this seemed to clean it up alot when EQed.

[bw]

yeah, but U still have to connect the output to one of the mic inputs...don't you????

[bw]

yeah, but U still have to connect the output to one of the mic inputs...don't you????

[T.J.Hooker]

That's right! I came out of the DAT's Line out RCA jacks. Then I got an RCA to 1/4 inch adapter and plugged it right into track one. But I sacrificed alot of mixing capability in the end. Ya know ? That's the only real drawback to bouncing I can see. Aside from goin over your cassette to many times. But with say a digital 4 track, noise should not really be a problem. You could bounce all day. And the DAT would just make it so you were bouncing 4 tracks instead of 3. But I used the DAT mainly to clean it up because it was a cassette.