DP01FX mixing

[jackets63]

OK, Im a total noob. I know this might be really dumb, but I think people expect dumb questions here.

Heres my deal: Buddy and I play together some and have some songs we record on my Tascam DP01FX. I usually have one track for a guitar, another for a vocal if we have one and another one or two for experimenting with lead guitar and/or bass. We arent great but we enjoy it and family and friends like to hear what we have.

My question comes in the mixing. Sometimes we want to put the demo of a song containing just the guitar and vocal out as an MP3 because thats all that is done. If I mix down the song will I still have my individual tracks available to keep working with the lead and bass tracks? Just like I had never mixed it? Id like to keep these two tracks in thier original form so I can keep working more with them. What I do now is export each track to my PC as wave and import them to my Pro Tracks software. I then let ProTracks mix them down into a wave file that I convert to MP3.

So I guess my question boils down to: If I mix down my two tracks (or technically all 4 tracks but the sliders only up on 2) will it then save as a separate file or will it store it under the same song?

As you can tell, I dont even have 100% control of the whole mixing concept. Im under the impression that you mix down at the end of the process, when you have everything in that you want and you just mix in what levels you want. I just dont know if you can mix in the middle of that process as well.

Dont be too hard on me.

 

[Nicole_Rose]

OK, Im a total noob. I know this might be really dumb, but I think people expect dumb questions here.

Heres my deal: Buddy and I play together some and have some songs we record on my Tascam DP01FX. I usually have one track for a guitar, another for a vocal if we have one and another one or two for experimenting with lead guitar and/or bass. We arent great but we enjoy it and family and friends like to hear what we have.

My question comes in the mixing. Sometimes we want to put the demo of a song containing just the guitar and vocal out as an MP3 because thats all that is done. If I mix down the song will I still have my individual tracks available to keep working with the lead and bass tracks? Just like I had never mixed it? Id like to keep these two tracks in thier original form so I can keep working more with them. What I do now is export each track to my PC as wave and import them to my Pro Tracks software. I then let ProTracks mix them down into a wave file that I convert to MP3.

So I guess my question boils down to: If I mix down my two tracks (or technically all 4 tracks but the sliders only up on 2) will it then save as a separate file or will it store it under the same song?

As you can tell, I dont even have 100% control of the whole mixing concept. Im under the impression that you mix down at the end of the process, when you have everything in that you want and you just mix in what levels you want. I just dont know if you can mix in the middle of that process as well.

Dont be too hard on me.

the thing is when you mix down with a dp01fx you should have the master button lit up. that will make sure that the "master" goes to a stereo track that is only for mixing down. it will leave all 8 other tracks alone. and then you "import master" to get it to your computer and then convert to mp3 format.

 

[ssscientist]

I just dont know if you can mix in the middle of that process as well.

You can.

I do it all the time so if needed I can go back to where I was a few hours ago and start from that point.

Once the tracks are exported to your PC they are completley separated from the tracks inside your DP01fx. You can consider your exported tracks to be version one of the song, then add other tracks to on your multitrack to create a version two.

Then you can export the resulting four, five or six tracks to your PC and do it all over again, resulting in version three.

If this doesn't answer your question feel free to post again and I - or someone else - will try to explain it in different terms.

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[jackets63]

That helps. Thanks guys.