MR-8 Users and Examples/Samples

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Junplugged: You did those tests with the internal mic?

Man, those tests you did "Going Nowhere Blues" sounds really clear. Wow. Did you ever get the effects to work?
 
Fairmont said:
Man, those tests you did "Going Nowhere Blues" sounds really clear. Wow. Did you ever get the effects to work?
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That was the only one I did w/ the internal mic. I didn't use fx on that one just to see how the mic sounded alone. It was better than I thought, it was a long time ago tho, maybe a year or so. The effects do work, I think they sound a little cheap, they can't be adjusted, but the room reverb used lightly is helpful.

It would have been better if Foxtex had one reverb effect instead of 4 bad ones. and if the one was adjustable for all the parameters in a decent reverb, including eq, decay, initial delay, depth, all that stuff, or even the stuff you can set on a guitar pedal. But all it has is total time of decay. and 4 harsh types, delay, room, hall, and plate. I wish those 4 buttons were individually adjustable parameters that were controlled by the dial above them. and held for that value until adjusted again....
 
How did you record the guitar?

Did you record the acoustic guitar using the external mic?

Also, I am currently using a Tascam four track cassette recorder, with horrible sound quality, and am wondering if the MR-8 will be a small, large, or huge difference. Any suggestions?

Finally, is it easy to upload the files to computer? And when done, can it be blended with a program like Fruity Loops. I compose a lot with Fruity Loops and love it, except I can't do vocals with it and their "guitar" sounds are horrible, totally unrealistic.

Thanks
 
Well, you sure do have a lot of options at this point. I would first improve your sound quality with what you have first b/c you need to know where the problem is so that you don't repeat the same quality issues by replacing something that may not be the point in the sound chain that's at fault.

If your sound quality issues are at the mic, cable, pre-amp, connectors, eq, other outboard processors or effects, mixers, levels at each, mic placement, room, sound source - instruments vocals amps levels of them, then if you record the problem by capturing it better, it may even sound worse. Then again it may be the output chain, headphones, speakers, cables, mixers, processors, levels, amps, etc....

Going from analog to digital was a big thing for me and still is rather complex and daunting for even the minimum. At this point, I'm only shooting for recording dry and high level tracks to be mixed and mastered by a pro, somewhere else. I'm only using my home studio for tuning up the sources and practicing recording and practicing my listening. I can only afford so much quality.

You'll definitely find the info you need on this bbs, it's awesome.
 
Yea, the "room" is at best the least of evils. I almost found use for it once.

But then again, I've not found use for the internal effects on my lil' mackie either... :confused:
 
the 'room' setting is the only one I use, but very lightly. Now that I have my old se-50 multieffects back up I'll be checking out the reverbs and delays in it. so far they sound better. This thing also has some eq I might use. I alread tried some DI bass w/ a 2khz cut and it seems to help.

What I do is record dry and externally bouce thru the gear, hard to do on the MR8 because you can't monitor it when you're useing the stereo outs to go back in.
 
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