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Boss Micro BR-80

Pocket Recorder/Multitrack from Boss belonging to the BR series

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«  Micro BR 80 really great »

Published on 04/16/12 at 05:05
Operation
The micro br 80 is a portable recorder multitrack 3-mode (Relax, Live and eBand).
MTR (creation)
It is possible to record 8 different tracks in mono or stereo while half of it in, except for a personal voice or keyboard I do anything else in stereo.
At each of its tracks can be stored eight trials. To this is added the rhythm section (drum set with lots of rhythm or metronome or anything ...) the metronome can be replaced later by a rhythmic drum.
You plug in the jack 6.35mm instrument (guitar, bass, electro-acoustic, keyboard, electronic drums ...) or you do not branch and are activated external stereo microphones.
There are a variety of guitar effect classified by style and also the effects that "turn" the guitar sound in elec bass in folk. there are effects for bass and voice.

eBand
The sound you import an existing fact you live in or MTR or song that you like (MP3) and there you can play along, nice, no? Ok there are even better, you can change the speed of the song (faster, slower) without affecting its tone (bass and treble) and vice versa can change the tone without moving his speed. wow! will you tell me what's so cool! Yes it is, but the quality is not great in the studio, there is as little distortion sound, but good for improving your speed or change of tone that's fine.

Live
Well here we use the two small external microphones to the camera and recording without connecting. Ideal for recording bands, a repeat, a voice, an acoustic guitar, we keep the room acoustics. The pickups are pretty good and handles well stereo. The last weekend I did a live recording of an artist on stage, it looks really good.

How long you use it?
I use it for about a month.

What is so special that you love the most, least?
Goodies: The multi track with eight tests at each track. it's really good. the punch-out, it can just repeat part (a measure for example) a piece without redo everything.
Cons: Some effects are not terrible, it lacks on bass and acoustics but they can create. Liaison with the SONAR is super simple (recording) I'm going to look more seriously thereafter.

Did you tried many other models before buying it?
An external sound card with two inputs, but it's just a sound card, there is not any effects or multitrack editing in mobile.

How would you rate the quality / price?
I find the price quite expensive in nine is € 250. I bought it used € 170 with a 16GB memory card and power supply. But it took I'm looking for more than 15 days on the net every day.
It is true that there are many features on it, but € 250 is not nothing.

With experience, you do again this choice? ...
Yes, I will ever see this option because I think it's a good tool to grow, train and everything in laptop. What I find great is that this little device is very comprehensive, it does not use certe maybe not everything, but Boss to think about many things and we can also set up and create effect, import drum sets in short, everyone is benefiting, although this is not a "studio" in the professional sense of the term.