Digital Multitrack Recorders.....:eek:

[Nicksan]

Been doing some research but I am kinda confused as to what exactly they can do and have a few questions. Been looking at Boss, mostly the BR 900, 1200 and the BR 600.

1. Can I plug the (balanced) out of my guitar amp into these units and record directly to the compact flash card? I probably wont use the onboard effects.

2. Can I record the onboard drum machine to a track at the same time I am recording guitar to another track?

3. Why do they record to a WAV file? Do the ones with a built in CDW record to another format?

Thanks for any help.

[jimmiebananas]

I'll answer based on what I know about my Boss unit (br864)

1)I've never tried that I probably wouldn't. If you're going to be playing a guitar direct, just plug it into the guitar input on the recorder and have the COSM effects turned off. I could be wrong but amping it and then running it through the preamp might cause trouble.

2)The rythym track isn't treated like an audio track. You can only keep it in the "rythym track" You can't record it to another track, but you can bounce it with others and export a wav file.

3)WAV is pretty much the standard windows audio format, like AIFF is for macintosh. Not sure what the cd recording units do, but they probably only burn as wav files, like when you burn a cd on a computer. Unless it lets you burn them as mp3's or something as a data cd but I'd highly doubt it.

Again, based on what I know about my Boss Br-864

[Nicksan]

Hmm, Then how do I get my particular sound recorded digitally if I cant plugin directly from my amp or effects processor. I know I wont like what the onboard effects sound like, never have liked boss pedals.

Thanks.

[jimmiebananas]

Actually come to think of it, there's a foot/expression pedal input spot on my recorder, and I know there's one on the br600, the others probably have one too. So you could use that for your effects processing. Forgot about that because I mic everything.