Mastering on DAW's

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Has anyone else got more information on this dilemma?

I have a Yamaha MD8 that I use for song writing and other self indulgent activities, I wanted to start planning an upgrade to an DAW because of space limitation. I started reading specs and details on all
these 24/96 DAW's and noticed that there is a wall built into them. Besides the fact that most advertise the highest bit rate, never advertise that it diminishes the" high" number of record hours advertised in other parts of the ads, you cannot master to CD-R if you have done all your work using the 24 bit word depth. The Yamaha, AW2816 and AW4416, both will let you use the burner, but it will drop the 8 LSB during the burning. So whats the point if that extra quality is going to get randomly truncated? On the Roland VS-2480, if you plan on making a CD with the onboard burner you better do all your work at 16/44.1 or the machine won't let you access the "mastering function". Certainly this all cannot be true!
Or can it?
If this is true then you looking at having to spend another $1000 to $1500 on something like a Masterlink or some PC based setup with a 24/96 pci card. The only other option I see if you bought a Sony CDRW33 or CDRW66 with Super Bit Mapping. I would like to hear comments, both good and bad, but consider someone who has a single income family of 4 with a studio (micro) the size of a small bedroom.


Thanks,
Dennis

P.S.

Tell Blue Bear I own both the MD8 and the Alesis 3630 and Im looking for some Yamaha ns-10m
studio monitors. :0)
 
Aww heck, you don't need the DAW!!! If you've got the 3630, NS-10s, and minidisc recorder, get yourself a $200 Radio Shack cassette deck and you've got all you need for "mastering"!!!! :p


:D :D

Bruce
 
Alesis 3630

I wish I had found this forum before I purchased the 3630! When I got it home, and put it in my rack (which is comprised mostly of cheap effects for playing live) I though I had it plugged in "backwards"! I have never had a device that colored a signal so much unless it was an effects processor. Im actually spent the time since I spent the money to figure out how to counter it with eq as much as possible, but main its used for a gate on the mike in front of my marshall cabinet. Ive used DBX compressors and once I played with an Aphex which I thought were pretty easy and fairly transparent.

I just neide mo munny!

So Bruce, I take it that my situation for future upgrading is hopeless since you added nothing but Radio
Shack Stuff!

Peace,
Dennis
 
Sorry Dennis -- I was not trying to NOT answer your question... it's just that a chance to be moderately funny came up, and I took it!

;)


The Masterlink would be a very effective mixdown unit.... but yeah... you're looking at having to spend a few extra dollars for it.
 
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