Need help to creat a cd for christmas on my Zoom MRS-1266

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Hi there :) sorry for my bad english but im from Norway :)

But here is my case, i have a board Zoom MRS-1266.
and i have been recording 2 tracks by pushing prosject and startet a new one, so when i have startet a new one, i have chose my guitar and mic, and startet to record songs.

After im finish singing the song, i push the stop button. and i can see the project is saved. when im in the project i can play the song and listen to it,

When i push the Audio button for burning the song to a cd. i get up evry where i go the NO DATA. hmm
But when i listen to the project i can hear it. but its probley just still a project and not complet?

need so much help here people since its soon christmas :/
so time is running out. :(

Morten
 
Have you mixed down your 2 tracks to the Master Track?

FAQ MRS-1266


Q: The indication "NO DATA" appears on the display, when attempting to create an audio CD.


A: The only audio data of the "MASTER TRACK" is burned to a CD-R/RW disc. Before creating an audio CD, please complete the mix-down operation on the master track. For details about mix-down function, please refer to the operation manual, page of "Recording several tracks on a master track" (P.42-44).
 
no i havent done it, the problem is that im not sure how i do it, been searching on the net, but cant find a good site where its stands for us noob's :P
 
And it looks like they have the manuals in french, german, italian, and spanish...if any of those languages would be easier for you to translate than english.

Select your preferred language of choice under "Manual":

Zoom Support Index
 
and i see here they are talking about V-take, i have done nothing whit that, all i have done is started a new project, chose the line im using, the mic is behind the board, and guitar in the front, pushed recorder button then play. and start playing and all that, and pushed stop. thats all i have done,
 
CD audio is a very specific format. Decent authoring software should do the conversion for you, but rarely the case IME. And if you're going to burn a lot of discs doing the conversion for the authoring software helps speed things along. Basically stereo (2 channels of audio), 44.1kHz, and 16 bit. Plus big endian, where .WAV is little endian. Also your tracks must be a specific length, the specification breaks that down into 75ths of a second (1/75). I just make it a habbit of trimming my tracks to whole seconds, issue solved.

Why does it matter? Because some players are sensitive to that stuff. I have an old aiwa walkman that had no qualms playing 650MB discs in poor form. But for the 700MB discs, I have to adhere to the 1/75th of a second thing, or it wont even read the disc. And since you can't easily get 650MB discs anymore. Something to look out for.

If you don't burn an audio disc, not a problem. Many modern car CD players will play MP3 CDs which are just data discs which don't really care about the lengths of your files as long as the audio is in a variant of MP3 that it understands. Or for my car as long as the car ISN'T in motion, it'll play.
 
Assuming linux. Assuming you exported to a singular audio file of the right length. This is generally how I do it (the hard way).

$ sox input.wav -c 2 -r 44100 -2 track01.cdr
... for each track.

$ cdrecord -tao -audio track01.cdr track..... . . . . .

NOTE: syntax between versions of sox differ. Same for cdrecord. Check the help screen (-h --help /? etc...). Or the man page (man cdrecord). Or just use k3b. Someday I'll get around to better understanding the CD-TEXT stuff. And maybe dipping between full seconds, but audacity likes to shift the START of the cut to a fixed point, and not just adapt the END based on the start. So full seconds avoids any unnecessary math. For me anyway. Decent authoring software will do all that for you (or at least should). Also note that tao is the default and is track at once and has the default 2 second pause between tracks. Use -dao for disk at once to avoid any pause between tracks. If that is your thing.

Many means to an end.
 
Merry Christmas, hvorfor ikke du lese bruksanvisningen at den fine folk har lagt ut for deg?
 
The zoom recorder has a function inside it that lets you take your mixed tracks (like where the level sliders are) and make a 'master', which is like a final take on 2 tracks (left and right, just like a home stereo).

When you burn a CD, it wants to look for the 'master' stereo pair of tracks, which it turns into the kind of data an audio CD needs written to it in order to work. So, you need to do these things:

1: record your songs (already done)

2: make a 'master' within the zoom. This is a stereo mixdown of all the tracks you recorded that has been labelled as the 'master' by the zoom so it knows where to look for data when it makess the CD.

You will NOT need extra cables as this piece of equipment is able to function by itself. The 'master' track goes on a separate V-take in zoom recorders.

This is easy to do but hard to explain. Sorry. Page 33-36 of the manual tells you about the 'master track'. You will take your mix through an effect in order to do this too.

For instance, if you have 8 tracks recorded all on V-takes 1-1 (track 1 v-take 1) through 8-1 (track 8 v-take 1), it will combine them all to tracks on a different v-take for your 'stereo master' mixdown. On some zooms with 10 V-take per track and 8 tracks, it puts them on tracks 7-8 Vtake 10, but this may be different, some of them let you choose where to put the master mix. Just make sure you remember which v-take and which two tracks you are mixing down onto.

It will do this for you much the same as 'bouncing down' recording. The stereo master mixdown is what the Zoom will be looking for at the next step.

It is important to have your levels final when doing this. You will not be able to adjust them when it is making the CD. This is why you do a run through of the song inside the recorder first. The way you mix it as it plays through will be the way it burns to the disc, so if your volume is very quiet on your 'master' tracks, it will be quiet on the disc.


3: let the zoom use its own program to read the data to audio-CD format (all you need is to have the stereo master V-takes to tell it to use. It will do the rest, and then ask you if you want to make another copy. The first one takes a while because it has to do a lot of work to make the sound compatible to a CD, but once it does this work for the first one, it will burn extra CDs pretty fast.
 
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