Some Questions on the BR

[Detekk80]

Hi, I hope to learn more on this site.  I just started learning electric guitar 10 months ago, and wanted to start recording my progress.  I was thinking of the Line6 Backtrack + Mic, but then I came across the Micro BR and it seems way better, and not that much more expensive. 

Before I go ahead and buy the BR, I have a few questions:

1) I was hoping to record some covers.  It would be my guitar and my vocals.  I was wondering if it was possible to load up a MP3 song on the BR and use the center cancel feature so I could keep the bass and drums, but record my own guitar and vocal parts on top of it.

2) I have a Line6 Spider3 30 Watt Amp and was wondering it was possible to use the effects on my amp instead of the BR's effects to record.  I'm guessing, I would need another guitar cable to connect the line out on the amp into the input of the BR.

3) Can I use the line out of the BR to connect to the line in on my amp so I can hear what I'm playing instead of using headphones?

4) How good is the on-board mic for recording electric guitar clean and distortion, and vocals?

5) When recording multiple tracks, how hard would it be to sync up the tracks together, say if at the start, you are a beat behind  Or you're playing a solo with different effects in the middle of the song?  How do you sync it so you're not off the beat?


I think that is enough questions for now.  Thanks.

[Glenn Mitchell]

All these have been covered but the short answer is yes to all of the questions with the exception of the MP3 center track.
Importing an MP3 will give just the stereo that it is, not the separation of individual tracks. There is no center track in an MP3.

[Geir]

1. The center cancel function is only available in the mp3 mode, not in the multitrack recording mode.

2. Connecting line out to the line-in on the mbr will work fine (use a stereo mini-jack cable)

3. yes

4. The on-board mic is very good!! I've just used it for vocals and acoustic instruments, and for that it's brilliant !! Others have better answers regarding amp recording.

5. If you do all the recording on the mbr, there will be no sync issues, there's no lag when you record and you hear what already is recorded.

[Detekk80]

Ok, there seems to be a confusion?  On the Boss description it says: "Time-Stretch and Center Cancel features (including MP3 files.

but then one of you guys says it is only available on mp3 files, while the other says center cancel is not available on mp3?

I"m just wondering if center cancel is available on any file, I think there is just either .wav and .mp3 files right? ; that I can load up a file, use center cancel to take out the lead guitar and vocals, and record my own guitar and vocals, but keep the other elements of the song?

..or does the mp3 player feature just play songs and not allow you to record my own tracks alongside the mp3 or wav file?

[Geir]

The MBR has two main "modes". Multitrack mode, where you can record  to 1 or two tracks at a time (and listen to the rest of the 4 tracks while doing so). And mp3-mode, where you can play along to an mp3/wav-file (with an option of center-cancel) or record 2 tracks to an wav or mp3-file.

If you want to create a backer by center-cancel you can do that in a DAW (eg Audacity) or you can record the playback of the cetercancelled output from the mbr with some other recording device (eg Audacity on a computer)

Hope that helps.

Please correct me if I'm wrong anyone (64G ? )

[Glenn Mitchell]

Ok, I have never used a "center cancel" mode. Learn something every day.