Br-600

  • Thread starter Thread starter Mike Buchman
  • Start date Start date
M

Mike Buchman

New member
Anyone have or use the little BR-600 and can give a review? How easy to use? How qwuirky the controls? Does the XLR to mini conversion work ok? How are the effects? It looks like a cool tool, but not sure if it is just a scratch pad or capable of a home cd project...
Thanks!
 
I tried it but all you can do (at least through my pc) is play with the drum machine...
 
as far as sound quality goes, listen to all the soundlclick.com links that the guys have below/near their signatures in here using other BR studios, that will give you a good idea of what is achievable with any BR box.
Different people achieve varying quality with it.
 
You've never owned a Boss/Roland recorder, right?

I've owned several over the years, and they were much less attractive and convenient looking that this one.

The USB interface alone means you can import the tracks to your PC for further editing in a freeware application like Audacity or into a shareware mulitrack application like Reaper.

For onboard storage the machine records to increasingly available Compact Flash cards, and it will access up to a 1GB card -- LINK -- for 520 minutes of hifi recording. The card can be reformatted and reused until doomsday.

As always, the quality of results you get out of such a thing depend largely on how much time and effort you are willing to put in, but from what I've seen this is a machine that's got a lot to recommend it.


.
 
I have one and it took me a couple of days to get pretty much oriented. I have not used an external speaker yet, but the guitar input, drum machine, internal mics are pretty nice. My first project is not a final mix and I mastered it too low. I had to bump it up using Sound Forge, but I am sure it was just user error.

I love this thing! Very easy to use and it will produce a high quality recording.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=593893
 
ssscientist said:
For onboard storage the machine records to increasingly available Compact Flash cards, and it will access up to a 1GB card -- LINK -- for 520 minutes of hifi recording. The card can be reformatted and reused until doomsday.

Ok, so you're saying that the BR-600 can only access from up to a 1GB card, this might not be entirely true! If it will read compact flash then surely it will read not only a 1GB compact flash card but also it should read a 2GB card, 4GB card and also an 8GB card too.

Here's some examples of what I'm talking about:

SanDisk Extreme III 2GB

SanDisk Extreme III 4GB

SanDisk Extreme III 8GB

So as you can see, you can expand your storage size of your tracks to a much greater extent, thus allowing the recording of much more than a pathetic little 1GB thing, being that everytime you record something on a track, especially a Virtual Track then it will take up lots of room on your card so better to get yourself something nice and big boys and girls otherwise you'll have filled it in a matter of a couple of days. :D
 
Back
Top