Tony Houston's BR-800 Tutorial Videos

[64Guitars]

Tony Houston uploaded a 6-part series of BR-800 tutorial videos to YouTube today, so I thought I'd post them here for the benefit of our BR-800 users.

Thanks, Tony!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypeY_0MStGQ
Part 1
- Create a New Song
- Name the song
- Create a basic drum arrangement
- Record guitar on track 1



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZHmH1C79d8
Part 2
- Record guitar on track 1 (cont'd)
- Record bass on track 2
- Panning



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBs-dXWNtJI
Part 3
- Edit drum arrangement



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C6rsharpzk
Part 4
- Edit drum arrangement (cont'd)
- Bouncing/Mastering



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxXZyUWYLK8
Part 5
- Bouncing/Mastering (cont'd)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPlVfPPV_NA
Part 6
- V-Track screen
- Export song to WAV file
- Convert WAV file to MP3
using Audacity

[pjd1]

Hey 64 G they are very good and its just about the way i do things even down to the Audacity mp3 change at the very end of the video,s i have changed the file using the sonar le program but still not jumped into the other software swimming pool yet !! you must thank Tony for them he has made a great job , and they will help new users to the br 800 , as you can see it is so easy to record and use !!

Brilliant

Dunny

[pjd1]

Just some more info to any BR800 users i noticed that one of the songs i am working on had a memory of almost 150 meg !! loads of vtracks and recordings , i managed to reduce this right down to 30 meg using the " Save current state " in the Song menu .

Dunny

[64Guitars]

i noticed that one of the songs i am working on had a memory of almost 150 meg !! loads of vtracks and recordings , i managed to reduce this right down to 30 meg using the " Save current state " in the Song menu.

Interesting! Perhaps that explains why there's no longer a Song Optimize option in the BR-800. They may have built it into the Save routines so that it optimizes automatically every time you save the current state.

[thouston]

Hey, I'm glad you like the videos. It's been a crazy year with my wife leaving me (yea), the passing of my mother (boo) and getting a new girlfriend (oh yeah!), this is why I haven't posted much.

[thouston]

Interesting! Perhaps that explains why there's no longer a Song Optimize option in the BR-800. They may have built it into the Save routines so that it optimizes automatically every time you save the current state.

Yeah, I noticed this as well, and really don't understand why the engineers left this feature out.

[Tony W]

Interesting! Perhaps that explains why there's no longer a Song Optimize option in the BR-800. They may have built it into the Save routines so that it optimizes automatically every time you save the current state.

Yeah, I noticed this as well, and really don't understand why the engineers left this feature out.

Call your brother, and let us in on the secret! Good to see you again Tony.

[cuthbert]

Nice to see you back, Tony - and cool videos! (I'm still on the fence about the BR-800, myself).

Looks like a tough year, but I'm glad to see it's ending on a high note.

take care,
cuthbert

[pjd1]

Hi Tony H great job with the videos glad to see you are on the up and up , have you tried using the sonar Le software yet , i have done some basic editing and transfered some stuff to mp3 , but there is a learning curve which takes me away from using and playing a guitar , so at the moment audacity is what i would use to tweak and convert to mp3 ,  i intend to learn the software which is one reason i purchased the br800 so i can get the best of the hardware and hopefully the software , i have read with intrest some of the comments on the unit , the lack of editing features is not really an issue for me because i tend to record as if playing live , but it would have been nice to have that facility on the unit , presumably all the editing will or should be performed on the sonar package which if someone is after a stand alone band in a box its is not for them , the druming software is cool and i have used it and got control of what i want to do , which is a massive plus for me , also cosm sounds are pretty cool , there are some lead sounds which are really good and usable as are all the guitar patches , even the bass guitar from guitar input are really good !!
Dunny

[thouston]

Hi Tony H great job with the videos glad to see you are on the up and up , have you tried using the sonar Le software yet

No, not yet, the reason being is that SONAR crashed on my single core AMD PC if I recorded more that three tracks. I already had Reaper http://www.reaper.fm/, but also found that when I loaded the BR-800 drivers from the DVD, Reaper found the BR-800 ASIO drivers, so I can use the BR-800 the same as I could with SONAR (I just haven't done this yet).