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Boss BR-900 CD V2 Digital Multi-track Recorder | 
 enlarge | Brand: BOSS
Category: CE
Buy New: £349.00
New (2) from £349.00
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 6382
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 17.6
Dimensions (in): 16.5 x 14.6 x 4.7
MPN: BR-900CD
Model: BR-900CD
EAN: 4957054087579
ASIN: B0009VA9TC
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | digital recorder | | • | 8 track | | • | guitar recorder | | • | studio recorder | | • | portable studio |
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Product Description
Boss BR-900 CD The BR-900CD the musician's portable dream studio. It's road tough, fun to use, and it performs far beyond its weight class. This reliable all-in-one digital recorder stands out with its professional effects, realistic drum-pattern generator, vocal-correction and Mastering Tool Kit, digital output, and internal CD burner. No matter where you are in your home studio or on the road all you'll need is a BR-900CD, and you can write, record, edit, mix, master, and burn a complete polished CD anywhere, anytime. Built-in CD-burner and Mastering Tool Kit 46 types of BOSS GT-Pro class COSM amps on board, 8 simultaneous playback tracks, 2 simultaneous recording tracks with 8 V-tracks (64 V-Tracks total), 2 XLR inputs with phantom power, plus 1/4" and RCA inputs, and digital out Pitch correction, chorus, delay, reverb, EQ, and other great BOSS-quality effects, Programmable drum generator with 294 patterns, plus Tone Load function for custom beats, Record direct to CompacFlash (1GB card included; record up to 624 minute), Record direct to CD-R/RW, USB port for data backup to computer, plus importing/exporting WAV files, Runs on batteries or AC power (AC Adaptor included) The Best Gets Better With the same reliable and ultra-friendly operation as BOSS's highly popular BR-864, the BR-900CD takes three big steps forward by increasing the front-panel fader count from four to eight, and adding a built-in CD-RW drive and Pitch Correction to the feature set. The BR-900CD is compatible with CompactFlash cards up to 1GB capacity, which provides up to 624 minutes of record time (standard mode) in one shot. Even with all of these great new features, the unit's footprint remains small for ease of travel. Stellar Studio Effects Proudly displaying the BOSS logo, the BR-900CD offers a lineup of quality effects that are worthy of the legendary name. In addition to the time-tested standards (reverb, EQ, chorus, delay), you'll find additional pro-quality effects, such as
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Great and easy to use October 9, 2008
Anonymous reviewer (England, United Kingdom)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Before using this, i recorded on a budget. I used a video camera (which i also made films with) and windows movie maker to edit it, and the results took days and still sounded pretty rubbish. And then this i got this for my birthday. I was recording stuff really quickly and although the numerous options of CD creating was confusing for a while, i quickly got round it. It sounds very proffesional, is easy to use, and i still haven't discovered its limits. It has multiple tracks so you can do lots of overdubbing and other great stuff with it. Another thing that astonished me is how many effects it has. The guitars have 99 effects, including some that make it sound like a bass, and the vocals have quite a few as well. Something that would have taken hours or even days on my 'budget' method takes about 10 minutes on this and probably the best thing about it is: IT WORKS INSTANTLY. THERE IS NO COMPLICATED INSTALLATION THING.
Quick and dirty - fantastic bit of kit September 12, 2007
S. Haddow
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I had to give this unit 5 stars, but first one negative point I need to cover - when recording vocals (I use an SM58) I cannot really hear myself through headphones - the master fader doubles as the master headphone volume, so cutting the volume of the recorded tracks down to let the vocal stand out means that you cant get much volume overall - clearly when it comes to vocals the best way to work is via an external amplifier of some sort which headphones in that, but I wouldn't say this was major enough to justify losing a star.
What I love about the BR900 is how quick and dirty it is. You just switch on and record. No long boot, no complicated menus and fantastic BOSS quality effects built in. The amp emulators are very good, and the effects are quite dry - I use a gibson nighthawk and it really shines now. Previously I was using a Tascam 788 which is a good (but complicated) box, however the built in effects drowned everything and you could probably get the same guitar sound using a Peavey Predator.
The bass simulators, which vastly simplify the layout of my corner of the living room known either as 'that mess' or 'my studio' depending on who you talk to, allow you to use your six string guitar as a bass. Maybe would not be the case on any guitar out there, but on mine, I find it only really works with the 6th and 5th strings, 4th string and on sounds a bit strained. However the finished result is surprisingly convincing.
Equally true for the built in drums, which have a wide variety of patterns, and a 'tap' function to allow you select tempo (tap the button four times and the tempo is set). I am quite lazy about these things and the BR900 accomodates me nicely in that respect. I select a verse drum pattern when recording, then when I bounce down, I am able to toggle between the various patterns available in the arrangement (i.e. rock1, jazz3, ballad2 etc) so for the intro I can turn the wheel to intro, then verse 1, then middle, verse2 etc, and it will not change the patern till the next bar so you don't have to worry about precision timing - and the tempo will not change. (Although make sure you bounce drums before shutting down the BR 900 session if you changed the tempo as sometimes it goes back to the default tempo). The end result is a convincing drum arrangement with the minimum fuss. Of course you can pre define your drum arrangement based on the timing, number of bars etc - and this would allow you to harvest bits from different song types. But I'm not too much of a perfectionist on that count, and as I said the BR 900 allows me to work quick and dirty and still get a finished result.
The built in CD works great - you don't even need to master - you can bounce directly onto CD which is great for allowing you to listen to work in progress in the car for example. Only two inputs! Suits me just fine, as I'm a singer songwriter, but might limit others. The only way to use both simultaneously is with the COSM effect switched off, but you can still apply other basic effects to the channels - not done that yet though.
The vocal effects are also good, and again do not drown the vocal and fit in with the guitar effects nicely.
I can't recommend this highly enough, and at the price the quality is amazing.
Not tried the internal condenser microphone, but could be handy if running it on batteries (takes 6 or 8 double A, which in itself is nice, no need to buy expensive batteries).
There's a lot of low cost digital eight tracks out there - however for a guitarist singer songwriter, the quality of the effects are a point to consider carefuly - if you plan to use the internal effects then buy this - the effects are BOSS quality.
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