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Boss Micro-BR Digital Recorder Details;The World's Smallest Pro Studio! |
![\\\"BR600\\\"](\\\"br600.jpeg\\\") |
Boss BR600The Ultimate Notebook Studio BOSS has a long, celebrated history as the world's premier compact-effects manufacturer, but now the BOSS brand has become synonymous with portable digital recording as well. The latest arrival in the BOSS recording line, the BR-600, is bound to raise BOSS's recording profile even higher. Meet the most physically streamlined, feature-rich eight-track studio on the market.- 8 simultaneous playback tracks, 64 V-Tracks - CompactFlash memory card slot for storing recording media; 128MB card included - Built-in FX processor, including pitch corrector and COSM amp models - Built-in drum-machine with velocity-sensitive pads - Built-in stereo mic and battery power to record anywhere - USB for data transfer/computer connectivity - Portable and ultra slim: 257 x 182 x 23mm - Carrying case and XLR-to-1/4\" mic cable included 8 Tracks & Beyond The BR-600 provides eight simultaneous playback tracks, but there's more to this recorder than meets the eye. Each of the eight tracks also contains eight V-Tracks (virtual tracks), which gives you quick access to 64 tracks of recorded material. Record dozens of takes, then choose your favourites for mixdown. Drum Machine Onboard Need drums? The BR-600 has a drum machine built in. Assemble your perfect backing track from nearly 300 high-quality drum patterns built in, or program your own from the velocity-sensitive pads. Rock, pop, blues, country, R&B, Latin, and more - choose your style and you're instantly groovin'. Field Recording Wherever you go, the ultra-portable BR-600 is ready to record. It can operate on six AA batteries, for starters, so you don't have to sweat the AC connection. Best of all, a quality stereo microphone is built in, so you can point and capture audio on the spot, quickly and easily. Whether you're recording band rehearsals, capturing ambient sounds, or you name it, the BR-600 is all you need to get the job done with zero hassle. BOSS FX Sweeten your tracks with the powerful effects built into the BR-600. Derived from BOSS high-end recorders, these quality algorithms can give even the dullest tracks maximum impact. Fix mistakes and master your mixes. Included in the effects suite: COSM® guitar and bass amp models plus chorus, delay, reverb, and EQ for every channel. Pitch correction is provided as well. CompactFlash The BR-600 records its CD-quality digital audio direct to Compact Flash, the international standard for reliable, portable storage. A removable 128MB CF card is included, which provides approximately 65 minutes of recording time (one mono track). You can easily expand your recording time by purchasing optional CF cards. |
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Boss BR900-CD Digital Recording Studio Details;The Small-but-Mighty Studio with Built-in Burner |
![\\\"BR1200\\\"](\\\"br1200cd.jpeg\\\") |
Boss BR1200-CD Digital Recording Studio Details;Versatile, Feature-Packed Portable Studio |
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Like its junior siblings the BR532, BR864 and BR1180, the
BR1600CD thus has what you might call a \\\'streamlined\\\' feature set.Everything has its own dedicated button - none of your shifted functions here. There\\\'s no choice of sample rates or bit depths, no monitor mixing, and not much by way of routing options. There\\\'s no waveform editing, side-chaining, mix bussing or grouping, nor even a track solo function, and the design encourages recording with effects rather than tinkering at the mix. The drive towards ease of use hasn\\\'t just led Boss\\\'s designers to make a bonfire of inessential options, however.They have also included some attractive extras such as guitar amp modelling, a drum machine, a bass synth and a loop sequencer, not to mention a selection of hand-holding features designed to make recording faster and more immediate. Overview The BR1600CD is described as a 16-track recorder, although there are a few compromises along the way. The first is that tracks 9/10 to 15/16 are always configured as stereo; the second is that the built-in drum-machine, bass synth, and loop sequencer each take up a stereo track if you use them; and the third is that, unless you want to use a separate two-track recorder, you\\\'ll need to keep tracks 9/10 free to bounce your mix to. On the plus side, however, each track has 16 virtual tracks for storing alternate takes and the like. All audio is recorded at 16-bit resolution and 44.1kHz sample rate, with no data compression, and drive capacity is a generous 40GB. Up to eight inputs can be recorded simultaneously, with the socketry on offer consisting of eight XLR mic inputs, eight balanced quarter-inch jack inputs, a high-impedance jack for DI\\\'ing electric guitars and basses, and co-axial S/PDIF I/O. Globally switched phantom power is available for the mic inputs, though it resets to \\\'off\\\' every time you power the unit down. The output arrangements are rather less impressive: there is only a single stereo output pair, and that emerges on RCA phonos, nobody\\\'s favourite connector (although it will suit musicians who are hooking the BR up to a hi-fi, rather than a roomful of studio gear). There are two front-panel quarter-inch headphone sockets with independent volume controls. This is as many as most of the BR1600CD\\\'s rivals provide, but still not enough for many band-recording applications, and there\\\'s no way to set up a headphone mix that\\\'s different from the main mix. You can connect the BR1600CD to your computer via USB, and this allows you to transfer audio files to and from your choice of software MIDI + Audio sequencer or sample editor. The multitracker\\\'s drive is seen by the computer as a separate external hard drive. You can connect the BR1600CD to your computer via USB, and this allows you to transfer audio files to and from your choice of software MIDI + Audio sequencer or sample editor. The multitracker\\\'s drive is seen by the computer as a separate external hard drive. You can connect the BR1600CD to your computer via USB, and this allows you to transfer audio files to and from your choice of software MIDI + Audio sequencer or sample editor. The multitracker\\\'s drive is seen by the computer as a separate external hard drive. You can connect the BR1600CD to your computer via USB, and this allows you to transfer audio files to and from your choice of software MIDI + Audio sequencer or sample editor. The multitracker\\\'s drive is seen by the computer as a separate external hard drive. Audio data can also enter and leave the BR1600CD via a USB connection to a Mac or PC (an upgrade to version 1.01 of the BR operating system is required for use with OS X), and of course there\\\'s the built-in CD rewriter, which fulfils the usual backup and file-transfer functions, as well as writing audio CDs. It\\\'s handy to be able to back up BR projects via USB, but transferring WAV or AIFF files between the BR and a computer is no fun at all. They have to be converted to or from the BR\\\'s native format, a process which is about as snappy as continental drift, and the BR also takes ages to mount as a USB drive (on a Mac running OS X, at any rate). This might not be so bad, except that you can only import or export one file at a time via USB, so transferring a multitrack project involves dismounting and remounting the BR1600CD for each track. The BR also refused to recognise some of the AIFF files I tried to transfer to it, whether via USB or CD-R. The unit itself is fairly large at 494 x 339 x 99mm, with a robust plastic case, and draws its power from an external line-lump adaptor. All the information is presented on a 130 x 36mm backlit LCD, which is navigated with cursor keys and a data wheel. There are also four function keys and four rotary encoders, which take on different roles depending on what you\\\'re doing with them. Each track has a fader and a single button which serves for track selection, record arming and muting. It\\\'s all pretty easy to navigate, though I was occasionally confused by the system used to display the function of the assignable buttons. When you\\\'re editing a compressor and the screen says \\\'Link on\\\', for instance, what it actually means is that stereo linking is turned off, but that pressing the button below that message will turn it on. Three-band EQ is available on every track, and there are eight dedicated track compressors; the two sides of each stereo track can be unlinked for independent dynamic and EQ processing. There are also two global send effects, or Loop Effects as the manual describes them, one devoted to reverb and the other to chorus and delay-based effects. Finally, there\\\'s a powerful \\\'floating\\\' insert effects processor that can take on various tasks - you can spread its resources across eight tracks to provide additional compression and EQ, or focus them to provide more sophisticated functions for one or two tracks. The options available include COSM guitar-amp emulation, a Vocal Toolbox pitch corrector and harmony generator, a Mastering Toolkit, and speaker modelling for use with Roland\\\'s digital monitors. Getting Started When you call up a new Song, the BR1600CD asks you whether you intend to use the drum machine, bass synth, or loop sequencer, and configures the tracks accordingly. If you do want to avail yourself of these rhythm aids, you\\\'ll need to tangle with the BR\\\'s Pattern sequencer - see the \\\'Get Rhythm (And Bass)\\\' box for more detail. If you just want to go straight ahead and record audio, the BR does its best to guide you through the setup procedure. First, you choose one of four input assignment options by pressing the appropriate button. In Guitar/Bass mode, the BR assumes you\\\'ve plugged your instrument directly into the front-panel quarter-inch jack, and that you want to play and record through the built-in COSM amp modelling and effects. Likewise, Vocal mode is designed to cope with a mic plugged into input two, and automatically places a chain of vocal effects, EQ and dynamics processors in its path. Pressing the Guitar/Bass and Vocal buttons at the same time allows you to use both modes simultaneously. The Multitrack and Stereo Tracks modes make use of all eight inputs, if needed. In Multitrack mode, each input is assigned to the corresponding track, or to its equivalent in the 9-16 bank, while in Stereo Tracks mode, all eight are mixed down to a stereo pair and recorded to the track pair of your choice. In Multitrack mode, the BR\\\'s insert effects processor is automatically configured to place a low-cut filter, compressor and EQ across each track (in addition to the dedicated track compression and EQ that\\\'s always available). You can choose from various preset settings such as Rock Band, Jazz Band and Multi Drums, but the thinking behind the compressor and EQ settings for the different channels isn\\\'t always obvious. The default setting in all the input modes has the insert effects placed in the record path as well as the monitor path, though you can choose to switch them into the monitor path only, into the playback path as conventional mixdown inserts, or off altogether. The usefulness of recording with effects such as (digital) compression and EQ is debatable. On the one hand, it makes recording a more immediate process, which is in keeping with the BR1600CD\\\'s raison d\\\'ętre, and frees up DSP resources at mixdown. On the other, if you overdo things at the tracking stage, there\\\'s little you can do to remedy them at the mix, and the preset effects settings that are applied by default might do more harm than good. I also found it a bit odd that neither the insert effects processor nor the dedicated track compressors can provide multi-channel gating. |
![\\\"DR3\\\"](\\\"boss_dr3.jpeg\\\") |
Fast and easy solution for pro sounding drums. The Boss DR-3 Dr. Rhythmis the most affordable drum machine in the range. With the DR3 Dr. Rhythm, guitarists and songwriters can add incredible-sounding drums to their music. This ultra-affordable drum machine includes some of BOSS\\\' best acoustic and electronic drum kits and a selection of bass sounds. Great for jamming, the DR-3\\\'s Rhythm Progressions and multiple variations make it easy to create a realistic-sounding drum track for any style of music. And with Total Sound Control, you can tweak your kits to perfection.Product Details:
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![\\\"DR670\\\"](\\\"boss_dr670.jpeg\\\") |
12 voice, 255 tones, 16 bass tones, foot switch As the
follow-up to BOSS\\\' hugely successful DR-550mkII, the DR670 Dr. Rhythmstands as one of the most feature-packed and affordable drum machines in BOSS history. This compact rhythm-creation tool offers all the acclaimed sounds from BOSS\\\' flagship DR-770 model, while adding enhancements like velocity-sensitive pads, footswitch control and much more. Product Details:
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![\\\"DR880\\\"](\\\"boss_dr880.jpeg\\\") |
Guitar input with COSM, 440 sounds, four outputs and
digital out The new heavyweight champ of rhythm programming has arrived.
The DR880is a new-school powerhouse that\\\'s loaded with world-class sounds from Roland\\\'s famous SRX library, plus a stunning collection of original waveforms. The DR-880\\\'s drum, percussion, and bass sounds can be played and programmed as is, or customized with powerful toolssuch as independent compressors and EQs for the kick and snare, and a compressor and selection of COSM® amp models for the bass.Product Details: 440 world-class drum and percussion sounds, 40 bass sounds with COSM bass-amp models Three independent insert effects (EQ and compression), TSC (Total Sound Control) featuring 3-band EQ and high-quality ambience 1,000 patterns (500 preset, 500 user); easily add fills, ghost notes, chord progressions, and more 20 velocity-sensitive pads Guitar/bass input, plus multi-effects and COSM amp models 100 effect patches (50 Preset, 50 User) for electric, acoustic, and bass guitars Four assignable footswitch and expression-pedal inputs Digital and individual outputs; USB port for importing SMFs |
*Specifications and features are subject to change without notice.
