Anybody fucking with the Boss Micro BR ?

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Anybody fucking with the Boss Micro BR ?

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A pocket 4 track! I think this could be a revolutionary piece of gear ya'll!
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I'm sure someone on hear said they have one but I'm not sure who. Looks dope, but I would definitely go for the still very portable and more feature rich br-600 for just a tiny bit more money. I could make a whole sampled track in one of those without my 303, it has a drum machine with pads and you have great freedom in your sequences using 8 tracks.
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The micro is iller!
I'll support any presidential candidate that would pledge to buy millions of these for every school in American music class-
Overall, recording gear quality has reached "The best" it's ever going to get vs. 'the best it ever got'- Ipod sized multitrackers are whats next!
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the br-600 is sick. I really like the lofi fx. layer lofi drums with the original drums( add some extra treble to original drums). you get a sound better than those old samplers.
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They're both sick, it just depends on what you need.
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Yea I've got a Micro Br, dj vivi pedraglio has also got one. I jus bit her style. I love it. I record samples into it, with various boss pedal efx then I can chop it up on the sp404 and I can record my patterns in stereo or as separate tracks. I can then export it as an mp3 or a wav file. Its so handy, and I don't even use all its features. It eats batteries tho, so I recommend getting rechargables.
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How many hours do you get from a set of batteries?
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Cheenergies wrote:Yea I've got a Micro Br, dj vivi pedraglio has also got one. I jus bit her style. I love it. I record samples into it, with various boss pedal efx then I can chop it up on the sp404 and I can record my patterns in stereo or as separate tracks. I can then export it as an mp3 or a wav file. Its so handy, and I don't even use all its features. It eats batteries tho, so I recommend getting rechargables.
yes! i use the micro br....just 4 field recording , tv recording or recording my live sets in wav (with 1gb sd card sandisk)....sometimes im recording in song mode some voices...i use 3 pairs of Sony NI-MH 2700 o Sanyo NI-MH 2700 batteries rechargables...(i dont know about bateries-time...)

anyway...a friend have a br-600 is great too!

kisses, vivi.
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Battery life is not so bad (2 AAs). Your best bet is to get some rechargeables, and if you're just sitting contemplating, turn it off.
I will be taking the Micro with me on TG break, and will find out what it's really made of and report back!
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how well does it record stereo?
or is the micro br mono in only, cuz that's what it looks like.
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It records stereo and mono. The sound is as good as what you put in, plus you've got a few mastering settings that you can configure yourself.
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How good is the compression on the final stereo mix down?
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The compression is nice, plus you can tweak it. It works nice on drums with the limiter efx.
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The thing is great. One disappointment I've encountered is:
You can't record 2 or more tracks at once without an external device.
You can however record stereo, OR record 2 sources to the same track!
But unless I missed something, no realtime multitracking.
The inboard mic ain't half bad-
Still love it-
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