What do you use your Micro BR for?

[Tony]

I thought everyone had covered the bases until I was in the library the other day.  The library has just been revamped and they have a new audio section that requires that you supply your own headphones.  They used to supply headphones but I assume that they assume that everyone has mp3 players these days.  Anyway I sat down to listen to Disc 1 of 10 or 15 discs of The Complete Mercury Recordings of Roland Kirk.  And then I thought, just a minute, Roland Kirk, you're mine.  And slipped the MBR in between the output and the headphones.  And ...

then I realized that I would be committing a crime and stealing music from somebody who was probably just as needy as me and that little kiddies would point at me in the street when they saw the mark of the thief tattooed on my forehead and so I ...

thought, sod that, you're mine Roland Kirk.

I use the MBR for practicing guitar a lot as well and for making rhythm tracks and as an mp3 player.  But I feel it is happier when it is aiding and abetting.

[I.am]

 Heathen! Get thee to the naughty corner!!

[Sjd]

I'm mainly using mine as an MP3 player as I'm still trying to improve my chord changes and increase my accuracy and speed 

I also use it to improve my scale knowledge and try and come up with some licks while doing this 

When my skill and knowledge improve I'm hoping to create some magic of my own 

Sean

[Tony]

Just wanted to reinvigorate this thread because I found another use for the MBR.  Actually a friend with a BR600 told me but I've tried it on the MBR and it works perfectly.

I now use it for digitising my recorded LP album vinyl discs (singles, too).  I bought a little turntable with a preamp a long time ago to do this job but found that whilst it was ok, I never did the job because I was generally using the computer when I was recording the record.  That bugged me, I couldn't concentrate because I would want to listen to the record.  So I stopped.  The MBR is great, I just take the stereo RCA jacks into a little converter that takes them down to a stereo minijack and that goes straight into LINE IN. Save as a WAV and straight into the computer.  Just imagine all that boring 70s noise that my poor family are going to have to listen to now.

If there are any other people on the forum from Brisbane, WOW Sight and Sound are selling Verbatim 1gb SD cards for $5.95. That's cheap enough but the important thing is that it is getting harder and harder to find 1gb cards.  May be time to stock up with a few.

[guitarron]

that's a good idea-i've ben considering buying a cheap usb turntable for that sort of thing

[Wiley]

I bought mine because I basically wanted to get my songs into the computer and be able to make cds' for family and friends.  This site convinced me the br was the best.  And now I use it to do many things.   I love being able to interact with everyone.

[tkofaith]

I'm not a great musician, and my tracks will attest to that.  I do like to write songs, however.  And this is one of the best tools I've found for that!

[Farmjazz]

I have been using alternate tunings quite a bit lately - inspired by guitarists like Martin Simpson. After composing a song in an alternate tuning and tabbing it out, its then time to flesh it out with other instruments. To quickly get a handle on exactly what chords/passages I'm using, I'll use the MICRO BR tuner and jot down the notes I'm using as they appear on the tuner while I'm playing through the tune. I then define the chords based on the notes being played.

Anyway, it helps me to analyze strange chords/voicings in alternate tunings so I can accurately add other instruments, (in normal tuning), to the recording. Any other chromatic tuner with a mic would work, of course, but its handy to just call up the MBR tuner and away I go. Besides, as tuners go, its one of the best I've ever used.

[johnmcv]

I've also got a Zoom H2. I use both to record our band at gigs. I suspend the H2 from the ceiling for recording a live surround sound and I use the line in of the Micro BR for recording vocals and bass off the PA mixing board, panned hard right and left respectively. These tend to be the two parts that need stronger capture than the sound from the room with just the H2. I transfer all 6 tracks (2 stereo files from the H2 and 1 stereo file from the BR) to my Mac. I use Logic to separate the BR stereo wave file into 2 mono files, 1 vocal and 1 bass, then sync them with the 2 stereo wave files (front and rear) from the H2. The sound from the H2 is awesome combined with being able to boost and tweak the vocals and bass that were recorded with the Micro BR.

[henwrench]

 I use my BR to record the sound of frying sausages (not bacon), replay it very loud through my hi-fi and convince the kids that there is a poltergeist in the TV. They haven't watched TV now for six months....

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