new with the BR - Problems recording my songs!

[smaug]

hi there! I'm a guitar player / singer and want to record my songs on my brand new micro br.

I've faced a big problem so far:

1) I'm used to play and sing at the same time so it drives me nuts that the br dosen't allow me to record from guitar and external mic inputs at the same time, is there any way to pass this limitation?

If you want to check my songs (they are not yet recorded in the micro br) please click on my singingbox on this site:

http://www.thescaryjack.blogspot.com/

[guitarron]

The internal mic and guitar input most definitely can be used simultaneously hit INPUT then press the the corresponding TRK buttons for GTR and MIC(caps mean the input is activated)
ron

[hooper]

Or, it you wanted to take it a step further...

You could get a small, low-cost mixer like this:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHXENTX502

And then run a mic and guitar into the mixer on two separate channels, pan those channels hard R/L and then patch the output from the mixer into the 1/8" stereo Line In on the BR.  That way you will have more control over the vocal/guitar mix on the BR.
Then again, this way you wouldn't get to take advantage of the great presets while recording..... 

A good solution might be to record a scratch track while singing and playing guitar to one mono track, using the on-board mic.  And then come back and re-record the guitar and vocal separately, each on their own track, while monitoring the scratch track on headphones.



 

[PhilFromIT]

Or, it you wanted to take it a step further...

You could get a small, low-cost mixer like this:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHXENTX502

That looks like a nice little mixer Hooper. You own one? I currently have a 12 channel mixer (8 mono inputs/2 Stereo) but it is way more than I need and takes up alot of desk space. I might pick one of these up. At $45 bucks it seems like a steal.

-Phil

[hooper]

No, I don't have one like this one.  I have two larger Berringer mixers though. (1604 eurodesk and a 802, I think (I'm not at home)) I didn't check to see what the comparable Mackie would be... which would probably be a little better and cost more.

But I think this one looks like it would be a good mate for the BR for this kind of application and for the $.

AND there is a pre-amp on board which would make it possible to use something like SM-58 mic to record to the M-BR.

[SteveG]

That mixer is very tempting, I do all my stuff on headphones and it would make late night recording much easier. Double the price in the UK of course

[PhilFromIT]

Well I was looking to buy this little mixer locally and Guitar Center has it for $44.99. However they also have this one:

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Behringer-EURORACK-UB502-5-Channel-Compact-Mixer-102023769-i1153482.gc

Except the color, it looks identical and is only $29.99 USD. I think the more expensive one may have a better mic preamp though.

For reference here is the one Hooper originally mentioned:
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Behringer-Xenyx-502-Mixer-103846200-i1153498.gc

-Phil

[beleg]

Thanks for the tip. I did not know you could record from two inputs at once. That is a cool feature.