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Post subject: Personal recording mini-review
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:25 am
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For a couple of months I've been using Audacity on a laptop and think it's a fine tool, but I wanted something that was a simple dedicated guitar recorder that made it easy to record directly to MP3. After looking around, I found such a tool: The Boss BR Micro.

It's advertised as a 4-track recorder with effects, but that seems to understate its capabilities.

There are basically two modes for recording: multi-track and MP3. Multitrack has a lot of the editing features you'd expect from such a thing. MP3 is really nice for the hobbyist that just wants to record and play back to check timing and the quality of the notes being played (i.e., what I want it for.)

Operation is simple and flexible. I plug my guitar in one end and my headphones or speaker in the other. Press the record button, and play. Press stop and your song is saved as an MP3 file. Press record again and record another song. It's very easy and quick.

It is important to note that the tool also has a lot of amp models built into it, with about 80 presets that are easily modified to user-cusomized presets. When you select a preset, it comes up as the default effect next time you start the tool.

It also has about 300 very flexible rhythm effects that can be mixed and matched to make the rhythm for entire songs.

The only thing I'd like changed is that the metronome is one of the rhythm tracks, and the rhythm tracks can't be used in MP3 mode. I can live with this, though.

It comes with an SD card for storage. It runs on AA batteries (for a few hours).

I also use it by playing into the recorder and playing the music from the speaker of my G-DEC Jr.

It's really a miraculous tool. It cost $230, but it was worth it. For me it will be a tool comparable to a digital tuner, and will probably see more use than my amp from now on.


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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:42 am
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Very cool. I have a Zoom H2 surround sound recorded I use for acoustic jams, practices, sound effects (rain, birds, any small sound you want a perfect recording of, etc).

You can put in in the middle of some musicians, play it back and you can totally hear where everyone was in the room, amazing. And it records to wav or mp3 in various compressions, in stereo or surround sound that can be decoded into 5.1 surround for some very cool effect.

I take it all over with me now.


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