Tascam Portastudio 2488 User Manual - 5 – Mastering

5 – Mastering

 TASCAM 2488 

User’s Guide

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If you want to trim the start of the master:

3

Set the IN point to be the 00:00:00:00 point. 

4

Use the jog control to set the OUT point to the 

exact position where you want the master to 

start.

If you want to trim the end of the master:

3

Set the IN point to the point where you want 

the end of the master to be, using the jog 

method to set the point. 

4

Set the OUT point to be some way after the 

existing OUT point.

In both cases (trimming the start and trim-

ming the end):

5

Use the Track Edit 

CUT

 function to cut 

all

tracks between the IN and the OUT point. You 

must select the 

all

 option for the master track 

to be cut in this way.

If you are trimming the end of the master:

6

Make sure that the OUT point is now located 

at the real end of the track (where you set the 

IN point previously).

In both cases (trimming the start and trim-

ming the end):

7

Play back the master track, as described 

above. The start and end should now be as you 

want them.

Recording to CD-R

There are two ways of using the 2488 to record a disc 

either a track at a time; TAO (Track At Once) with 

the disc being finalized after the last track has been 

recorded, or a number of tracks together; DAO (Disk 

At Once), with the disc being finalized at the end of 

the session.

Recording many tracks at once allows you to reorder 

the tracks on the disc. It also allows you to put vary-

ing lengths of silence between tracks (ranging from 0 

to almost 10 seconds).

Remember that whichever method you use to record 

your CDs, you can record a maximum of 99 tracks on 

one CD, the minimum length of a track is four sec-

onds, and the maximum track length you can record 

from the 2488 is 80 minutes.

NOTE

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It is not possible to record a disc using both methods of 

recording. If you record a disk using the track method, 

you cannot then add a number of tracks together, but 

you can add single tracks. Likewise, if you record a num-

ber of tracks together, you cannot add any tracks (singly 

or together) later on.

Recording to CD-R (TAO recording)

Before starting this operation you must make sure 

that there is a recordable disc inserted in the CD-RW 

drive. If there is no recordable disc (that is, a CD-R 

or CD-RW disc that has not been finalized), the 2488 

shows an appropriate message.

1

Make sure the 2488 is in “normal” mode, that 

is, not in the master check mode or mastering 

mode. On the 

AUDIO CD

 menu, move the cursor 

to 

CD WRITER 

and press 

ENTER

.

The 2488 checks the CD-RW drive. If there is 

a valid disc in the drive containing at least one 

pre-mastered song, the display shows a list of 

the songs which have been mastered on the 

current disk partition.

NOTE

If a song has been recorded, but has not been mastered, 

it will not appear in the list.

If you want to change partitions, see “Selecting a disk” 

on page 32.

2

Use the wheel to select the song to be recorded, 

and press 

ENTER

.

You may now rename the song using the 

TITLE

key.

3

Choose at this point whether you want to 

finalize the disc.