Br8 zip

Follow this product to see new listings in your Feed! Follow this Product. Overview The Boss BR-8 Digital Recorder is a somewhat obsolete 8-track portable recording tool that uses Zip disks to store recordings. It has two bit analog input jacks and the ability to generate 64 virtual tracks using COSM modeling technology. Want to Sell Yours? Anyone can sell on Reverb. List your Boss BR-8 Digital Recorder today to get it in front of thousands of eyes, quickly and easily.

Any effects applied during the bounce are recorded to the destination tracks. The guitar preamp simulations use Roland's COSM modelling system and deliver quite acceptable emulations of various clean and dirty rock sounds. There's also an acoustic simulation, which is usable but a little metallic, and some very fine monophonic bass sounds can be simulated, including a fretless that sounds absolutely convincing once it's in a mix with other instruments.

The Centre Cancel and Phrase Trainer facilities are only available for sounds recorded on tracks seven and eight. The bypass status is shown in the display window if you press the Effect button, though the meaning of the word 'On' next to Bypass isn't quite as obvious as it could be — 'On' means the effects are off, in case you were wondering.

As I'd expected, the audio quality of the recording was excellent. I'd have no worries about making an album using this little box, though with my meandering style of hippy music I wouldn't get more than one song on a Zip disk.

Another plus for those working in a small room is that the unit is pretty quiet — the Zip drive is much quieter than any computer hard drive, and of course there's no fan to add to the racket and no monitor to play havoc with your guitar pickups. The Phrase Trainer reduces the audio playback speed without affecting the pitch — great for figuring out those impossible guitar solos. Roland have tried to think of everything to make this little box easy to use and although realistically you do need to study the manual for a couple of hours to get the best out of it, you probably won't need to refer back to it very often.

In fact, once I had sussed out the basics, pretty much everything else was where I expected it to be. The limited capacity of the disk drive may be a problem for those people who like to write musical epics — I'd have happily paid the extra for a Mb Zip drive.

It would also have made more sense if the disk format could have been readable by a PC or Mac for backing up, but the manual warns you not to put the disk into anything else, do I didn't try. In short, at this price, this little box is a technological wonder.

One problem with hard disk recorders is that when the disk is full you need some way to back it up. The Boss BR8 gets around that by using a Mbyte Zip disk as the storage medium, so when it's full, you can put it on the shelf and start another one if you don't want to erase the original.

The sample rate is There are three levels of compression available, the best quality being MT2, which provides a total of 50 minutes recording time divided dynamically amongst the eight tracks. The two other modes, LV1 and LV2, provide a maximum of 60 and 75 minutes respectively, but with more compromises in the audio quality.

Data compression has become a big issue in the minds of some people, but Roland's system compares very favourably with MiniDisc and most users can tell no real difference between recordings in MT2 mode and uncompressed digital audio.

Good overall performance for a basic starter unit. I like the BR8, but being new to computers, I would like to know how to hook it up directly to my laptop computer. Any suggestions?

I have a USB port. Is there an adaptor? But overall, this is a very good recorder. I lost my programming on it one time, BUT the company immediately fixed it. It works great now. Overall it is a very good machine. It is user friendly. The quality of the sound is really good with high quality powered speakers. I bought this equipment as payment to my demo producer instead of paying him dollars.

It made sense because then we could continue to use it for subsequent vocal demos instead of going to the studio. The coolest thing about the BR8 is that you can sit at home in your PJ's at 3am when the song hits you and record multiple tracks of the song in a matter of moments. It is also a plus to upload the song to my computer as a.

WAV file. The zip disc is definately an upgrade from a cassette but it is too easy to run out of space with only MB available. The unit is made well. I did start having problems with the AC port. Now you have to fidget with it to keep the power on.

That does not go…. That does not go over well when you lose power and your unsaved work without a moments notice. Now I have about 40 zip discs and no longer have access to the producer's BR8.

I was so impressed that I want to stick with the Roland family of multi-track recorders. I am hoping to find a used one that is still in good shape. Oh yes, I even got a merit certificate from www.

Not bad huh? This Br8 does everything i want it to do. Subscribe for updates. Register Products Protect your investment. Home Discontinued BR-8 Home.