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hey all, i'm a newbie having a slow start to my newly purchased ps-04 and i had a question for all you very knowledgeable technical musicians out there: i laid down four tracks on the ps-04 and successfully bounced them to two v-takes. however, after listening to them i noticed i could have mixed it slightly better. is there a way to get it back to four-track status without losing anything? any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Hi vandamage

Welcome to the forum. Your question seems very straightforward - if you have bounced 4 tracks onto 2 new v-takes you haven't done anything to the original recorded tracks, you've just recorded the output onto 2 new v-takes. Therefore all your original tracks should still be there to bounce again (maybe to a new set of v-takes if you have the room).

However this seems a little obvious to say, apologies if it is.

If you have deleted the original tracks however, then no, you cannot recover them to my knowledge.

Hope that answers your question - fell free to ask further questions if not

Gary.

... and if you didn't bounce to two new tracks... then you have lost two of your original four tracks.

Before bouncing, you can set which tracks to bounce to. It's somewhere in the TRK PARAM menu. The default is "CR" meaning the current tracks, which will overwrite your intial recording with the bounce.

hey thank you much for the replies. i guess my question was a little rushed, as I did end up figuring it out last night using audacity for the first time and noticed my original four tracks were there unharmed and unchanged. but again thanks, don't be surprised if many more questions arise from me