BOSS BR-800 Portable Digital Recorder

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The contents of this article are subject to worldwide copyright protection and reproduction in whole or part, whether mechanical or electronic, is expressly forbidden without the prior written consent of the Publishers. The BR-800’s powerful onboard effects processor includes GT-10/10B effects, VE-20 vocal effects and harmonies, and COSM-based acoustic-guitar body modeling. Whether you're creating intricate, multi-layered songs or point and capture field recordings, the BR-800 makes the recording process fast and easy. If you require further assistance, all Product Support questions are handled via BACKSTAGE which can be accessed via eu. The insert effects cover four categories - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass and vocals - so you can transform all the input signals that songwriting guitarists are likely to use.

This easy-to-use portable system can record four tracks simultaneously, and can record and playback up to eight tracks total for each project. Nevertheless, with a decent external drum machine/keyboard I was able to put together tracks that I was fairly happy with. Whether you’re creating intricate, multi-layered songs or point-and-capture field recordings, the BR-800 makes the recording process fast and easy.This year though, I remembered that an ex boyfriend had an 8 track studio and thought this might be the answer, so bought it for Birthday and Christmas. There’s also a built-in stereo condenser microphone plus a DR-880-quality rhythm generator for adding drum and percussion tracks to your songs. I've only given 4 stars because I'm having trouble linking it to my PC, but I'm sure I'll work that out. Nor does it give you the option to retain your favourite recording settings - once it's turned off, you're back to its default recording settings.

Then I got distracted for a while with in the frustrating, latency plagued world of DAWs (Digital Audio Workstation) and dedicated USB audio interfaces. There's also a built-in stereo condenser microphone plus a DR-880-quality rhythm generator for adding drum and percussion tracks to your songs.If you're more interested in recording to a DAW on your computer, the BR-800 also functions as a direct USB interface. When we receive the goods back undamaged and with the correct packaging we will refund the cost of the goods. Recording onto an SD card and running from batteries, the supplied power adaptor, or even via USB, the BR-800 is designed to be easily portable.

I took a step back, read the manual and went on-line only to have it confirmed, Not only that, but TRACK EDITING has also been greatly dumbed down. is not as instantaneous as the microbr, so my work rate is longer when creating a song, however my songs might not be any better but they are certainly better produced.

With the BR-800, players are able to record guitar, bass and vocals and add effects derived from Boss's flagship processors. Not so with the BR800 - unless you choose to record in "sketch mode"; otherwise, the process of converting Boss's proprietary musical file format to .

Should have been so easy for Boss to sort this out, but they have sold loads of these so probably don't care. Then in 2000 along came the zip-disk based Boss BR-8; much more storage space, 24-bit digital quality, but still the necessity to switch disks, which were, at the time, becoming increasingly hard to find (a 100Mb mini disk held about 3 songs per disk). Ever since I've had Windows 10 my PC just doesn't recognise my BR600 when I connect it so the card reader does sound a good option.I play back tracks from Youtube or Windows Media player for example, while the guitar sounds come from the excellent COSM models of the BR-800.