Strange recording request but maybe someone can help?

[Capn_Gaz]

Hi guys,

Does anybody know if it is possible to have an input go into the guitar or line in with sound go through it and record to its own track but not have its sound play out again through the headphones?

What I'm after is to do something like this:
I want to record something using the onboard mic to a track. Then to play that out of the micro br through the headphone socket, have a cable from this go to an effects pedal and out of this back into the micro br via guitar or line in to record to a seperate track with the effect added.
The difficult bit is having this effect processed sound come back into the micro br and record to its own track but not come back out of the headphone socket and constantly loop round and round.

If this idea makes sense to anybody, do they know if it is possible to do this and how it would be done?

Cheers,

Gareth

[Glenn Mitchell]

I'm thinking you can get all the results you are asking for but not necessarily in the way you suggest.
You can plug your guitar into your pedals then into the MBR so that track will be as you want it.
You can also record with the on-board mic for another track. Either vocal or acoustic
Then you can  mix them together at any levels you like.

[Capn_Gaz]

Unfortunately its a bit more of a tricky issue as its a vocal I need to record and as the only access to a mic I have is the onboard one I cant just plug a mic into the effects pedal and then into the microbr.
I was hoping someone might know of some kind of input recording volume and seperate output volume option - I know it was a long shot but it was worth asking.
I guess I will have to try export the vocal track to an mp3 or wave file, copy it off the micro br onto the laptop and play it from there, into the pedal, into the micro br

[Dmann]

 For what you are trying to do really it would be in your best intrest to simply buy a seperate microphone.

 Doing a dry recording then transfering to your PC and then playing back from your PC through the effects and then into the MicroBR will work, but you might end up with extra line noise, and also if your trying to sync it up with music could be a little tricky.

 Is it impossible to reproduce the effects your are trying to acheive using the MircoBR's built in effects processor? Remember you can record your vocal track dry and then add effects while bouncing that track. This can be layered as well by doing multiple bounces. I've personally found the MicroBR to have a very complete set of effects, however I've also found that to get what I am looking for I've had to use some guitar patches and completely tweak them out so they work with vocals, because while the mic effects are great when using the onboard mic, for post processing they seemed limited.

[Glenn Mitchell]

So the result you are trying to get is an effect added to a vocal?
What effect is it you want?

[Capn_Gaz]

Hey guys, no its not impossible to do it on the micro br - I want to run the vocals into a multi band eq where I can adjust each frequency to where I want it without using the micro br for it. The reason i want to do it this way is because with the onboard 4-band eq, to target specific frequencies I can only do two at a time, then I have to bounce, change different frequencies on the bounced track, bounce again, change different frequencies, bounce again etc... etc...

With an eq pedal I can set it up as:
micro br playing the vocal track > eq pedal > headphones
and adjust on the fly how I want it to sound, then was hoping to just swap the headphones for a cable running back into the micro br when its how i want it.

It was to make things easier for me without having to do multiple bounces - then if I decided I dont like how it was eq'ed, I could just play the dry track back through eq pedal again with the little adjustments without having to do lots of bounces to re-eq just two frequencies everytime.

[Glenn Mitchell]

Glad you solved your own problem.

[Geir]

I have yet to try this, but have been thinking about it for a while:

* record vox dry
* hook the headphone out to an external FX and then into the line-in
* record the new FX'ed vocal to 2 new tracks, with the input dial turned to 0.

Anyone tried this?

[guitarron]

i wonder if there would be a slight timing issue-correctable none the less

[Vanncad]

Whats an EQ?