Life after getting a BR

[Wiley]

This is what happens to those who find this site (which is so addictive) and have a BR and then start taking guitar lessons from 48. Nothing, absolutely nothing gets done.  This pile of weeds happens to be my flower beds.  I just haven't had time to do anything with them. LOL  I am too BUSY  with my BR and guitar!!   

[Geir]

LOL ...

Weeds is my favorite american TV series

[Oldrottenhead]

i am at the stage now where i am trying to balance my work life and my family life round my mbr life lol. for now family is priority  so i'll be popping in and out but not for as long or as often.

[BossMicroBRew]

Heavily weeded flower beds make for some great hide and go seek.

[Vanncad]

Around my place, they have some helicopters out right now helping people find the "weeds" in their crops. 

[AndyR]

I've got a slightly different problem.

Before I got the MBR last christmas, I'd managed to get sucked into the never-ending "search for the perfect guitar tone for recording" vortex...

This involved buying amp modellors etc, and then led to buying hand-wound pickups, and then better guitars to put these pickups in, etc, etc... When I was young and was actually going out playing to people, I couldn't afford a "decent" guitar, now I've got decent guitars all over the place...

I spend much of my spare time "playing guitar". Very satisfying and all, but often not leading anywhere (and the whole point of it, starting 4 or 5 years ago, was to have minimal kit to support home recording of songs...)

The MBR actually saved me and broke the cycle for a while - I actually started making recordings I'm proud of. And then I found this site, which gives me an outlet for what I create - and a fantastic community where truly great things are possible - it was all going so well for a couple of months...

Now I'm back to "playing guitar" again... and "polishing guitar", and "setting up guitar", etc, etc... none of which allow time for a) recording music, b) taking an active part in another web forum...

The problem for me is that this particular forum is directly related to me being creative - if I'm not being creative, I've got nothing to say - and responding to other people's creativity takes up time I should be spending on mine  . So I wean myself off to go and do some creativity - I start playing and I get distracted by the laptop and sucked into spending all Sunday afternoon on the other forums, those that aren't related to me posting my work!!! So I deliberately kept myself off here, and still didn't do anything... (it didn't help that the missus's PC died and it took me a couple of hours to get it going again). The MBR is still sat on top of the piano where I left it nearly two weeks ago... AGGH!! 

And of course, none of this makes space for the missus hersefl... luckily she's spending every spare moment she has writing - when her PC is broken - so she's not wondering why she can't have a game of Scrabble or whatever 

Oh well... at least the guitars are sounding good, and so are the AndyR performances in the living room - just that I don't seem to be able to capture any...

Computers and this interweb thingie are a very double-edged sword. Musically, I wouldn't be where I'm at now without them, but at the same time, they're stopping me making music!! GAH!

[Davo]

Andy on my days off, first thing out of bed I plug in and come up with something.   It helps if I have not heard any music recently.  I always suprised what comes up.  Today, I read an old Pixies interview from 89 or so.  Then I picked up the MBR and made a pixies style groove.

[Dmann]

 I've found the MicroBR to be a huge time saver on everything, which in turn allows me more time to do everything else in life.

 The ability to turn it on and everything is exactly where you left it when you turned it off is a major time saver. I mean I can tell the girlfriend I'm going to have a smoke and in the 10 minutes I am gone, I can easily lay down a couple tracks, do a couple punches to fix up mistakes, or even just work on tweaking out a patch for bouncing/mastering/effect adding, or even just do a quick jam a long my favorite tune.

 I still own my old yamaha 4track cassette recorder. I have done more on the MicroBR in a year then I did on that thing in 15 years of owning it, AND I spent WAY LESS time doing it with the MicroBR.

 All I know is it is the single best "gear" purchase I've ever made.