Garry, don't leave!!!

[robjh22]

Garry, thank heavens you're around today. Okay, I've made GIANT progress in the last 3 days. Finished my 6 track program "Bulgarian Bumblebees." Works perfectly on the VF80,
reverb, pan, eq, everything's right. (Noisy as hell, but right.)
Internally mastered down to tracks 1 & 2. Then I went to burn the CD. Followed directions precisely, and ...

It doesn't work. The display on the vf80 confirmed that the save was completed. I took the CD out and tried to play it in daughter's CD player. Only 1 track plays. Out of 6! And the 1 track only plays for about 10 seconds (out of 3 minutes). Oddly, the noise is gone, but so are the other 5 tracks. The mastered tracks are still on the program on the machine. What the hell is wrong???

I totally skipped the "making a wave file" business in my haste, assuming it was irrelevant to the making of the CD itself. Was that required to make the CD? Is it required for the computer to be able to read the disk?

I must have skipped something, for nowhere did I tell it to talk in language that daughter's CD player would read.

I'll take tips form anyone! Thanks.

 

[Garry Sharp]

Sorry Rob, I'm the wrong guy when it comes to CD burning. Billisa is the local expert, or probably bd or gospel, if they are around. But surely you have to "master" on to 7&8 first. No, you don't need to worry about the .wav files - you just make a CD with those if you want to transfer the tracks to a PC for mixing etc.

Otherwise it sounds as if you inavertently left some fader settings where they shouldn't be; the manual does need a good few reads before it becomes clear...

Sorry I can't help more specifically.

 

[robjh22]

Thanks, Garry. Yeah, I did bounce to 7/8, then mastered to 1 & 2
as the manual contemplates. (Notice I don't say "instructs" -- it's unclear whether you have to master first, but they "assume" you have mastered, so I guess it's the same thing.) I know the tracks are on there (on 1 & 2), because they play back on the machine.

If you don't know about CD burning, I'll bet you know this:
the acoustic guitar tracks are humming along nicely in the intro,
then when I begin singing (3 part harmony), the levels on the guitar tracks drop like 20%; I know there's cause/effect there, because when I pause in the singing, the guitar levels rise again,
but only until the singing resumes. Why?

Possible clue: I messed around haphazardly with compression and ambience levels before (or was it after?) mastering, and I think I should have left them alone, because I don't really understand them, beyoned theoretically.

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing,"

Rob