Acoustic Blues on Washburn D10

[Lev]

It's been a hell of a long time since I've recorded anything but recently I got a Boss Micro BR and a sony condenser Mic from eBay and set about recording a demo of my Washburn D10S.

I hope you likey....(if you listen closely you can hear me breathing in time to the music - an annoying little trait that I have...)


http://www.box.net/shared/lggx3fe8is

[Kazz]

very nice.....downloaded that to add to "The Fret Dot Net Players" playlist I have on my ipod.

[tjcurtin1]

Sweet little tune, Lev! Playing is loverly and the D-10 sounds good...

[sunvalleylaw]

Nice to hear you again Lev. I always enjoy hearing your playing and I love some of those chord changes. Nice!

[evenkeel]

Good stuff. Very nice. Thanks for sharing. :bravo: :beer:

[tot_Ou_tard]

I can't seem to get the box.net file to play.

[sunvalleylaw]

I ended up downloading it and it played fine. The box.net play button didn't work for me either.

[sumitomo]

I finally downloaded it too.Good job I like it.Sumi:D

[peachhead]

I really enjoyed that!

[Lev]

Thanks for the kind comments guys, apologies for the play button not working on box.net, it may be because I saved the mp3 as 256bit rather than the standard 128bit. The sound of the guitar was distorting a little at 128bit.

thanks for taking the time to download :beer:

[Algonquin]

Sounds Great Lev! Nice playing and recording. How are you liking the Micro unit... easy to use? It certainly seems to do a nice job of recording. I'd like to look into something like that as well.

Cheers :beer:
David

[Lev]

Thanks David,

I like the Micro BR as a recorder but as with everything it's not perfect. On the plus side it records really well with no noise or latency issues and is for the most part pretty intuitive to use it's basic functions.

Where it falls down slightly is on the guitar modeling side, it has the exact same COSM modeling as my old BR532 that I bought about 8 years ago so it's not exactly the newest version of Boss modeling technology. For any serious recording I'd need to run it through my POD first which is fine but it takes away the whole portability aspect. The modeling sounds are fine though for practice and playing along with mp3's.

For vocals and acoustic instruments it's really good though (no modeling required), especially if you buy one of these ridiculously cheap Sony stereo condenser Mic's from ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/For-SONY-ecm-ds70P-Electret-Stereo-Microphone-1-5M-Ca_W0QQitemZ260319289190QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Spe akers?hash=item260319289190&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1234%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C 240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

Also one of the main attractions for me with the Micro BR is that there's a pretty vibrant online community, so getting advice and support is pretty easy.

http://microrecorders.org/community/index.php

I also like the fact that you an save individual tracks as WAV or mp3 and copy them to your PC to import into Audacity, Reaper, Cubase your software of choice. So I tend to use it as a scratch plate for getting ideas together, then when I find something I like I copy the tracks to my PC and sequence it together.

Overall it's a useful device but it doesn't give you anything that you probably don't already have on your PC so really it's a question of how important portability is for you. I'd give it a 7/10.

Hope this helps

[Tone2TheBone]

Gotta have a go at this from home cause of the filter here. (werk)

[oldguy]

Nice sounds, Lev!:beer: Didn't notice the breathing, but the D10 sounds great!:AOK:
Thanks for sharing that with us.