Very useful compact recorder. 
by Ken from Canada, February 2008
Music Background:  Musician, song writer

This is a great little recorder for getting ideas down fast. It's just what I needed for my song writing experiments. I have the ac adapter as well ,and that makes work easier . I don't have to worry about saving battery life and its environmentaly friendly. I'm using it for practacing as well. You record a bass track and get the drum machine going and let er rip. It takes awhile to learn all the features but it pays off in the end. Basic recording is very simple.One complaint is that the tempo setting doesn't get saved with the song. Am I doing something wrong? I've learned to work around this by making notes. The guitar sounds are good. There are lots of useful drum beats or just use the metronome. And there's a tuner. Haven't done the bouncing yet. The Mac is better for that sort of editing. Arranging drum tracks looks to complicated, its best to just set 1 groove and go. I recommend this highly. The Beatles recorded on 4 tracks and here you have it in the palm of your hand !!

  Great little digital 4-track! 
by Matt Richardson from Concord, NC USA, September 2007
Music Background:  Hobbyist

I love this little thing! Easy to use! Really fun effects. Great little 4-Track. Powerful yet compact. The internal mic is nice, too. I use mine as a scratch pad. Be sure to buy a power supply! You'll be using it a ton!

  Comfy and a real cutie 
by Richard from Toronto, July 2007
Music Background:  Have worked with MIDI since it was invented - play, write, sing, dance and trim my eyebrows whenever nescessary

Eye candy for sure, but the tactility is another attraction for me.I haven't gotten into the finickiness of bouncing or mastering, [It's not particularly needed since I use several software packages which can breeze through the process intuitively.
Let me offer the image of a guitar player ...eyes closed... lazing back against his pillow, the recorder,weighing nothing to speak of, taking up less room than a paperback, signal fed from a chicken-plucked telly ...

And can I tell you how convenient it is to record in MP3 format by just pressing record-play-stop and repeating the process to capture another rendition or style of playing while resting assured that each piece has it's own number to call up later to offload for looping on Live 5 or Cubase?

  Boss Micro BR 
by Van from Philly, May 2007
Music Background:  hobbyist, aspiring blues player

As a beginning guitarist, I had an interest in purchasing a recorder to use to save developing songs for family or download onto a computer for eventual editing. I purchased the micro for this purpose. Overall it will serve my purposes quite well. I read somewhere of someone complementing the box it came in.....I thought that was bit funny but in reality it somes in a well designed box that protects it quite well during shipping. Kudos to whatever engineer designed it. The time spent designing the packaging speaks well for Boss and probably the thought put into their products. The unit itself is small and manageable not too much larger than a ipod. It has easy to read display and accessible controls. I am not crazy about the mirror finish since it smudges easy. A case might help. I had a bunch of AA rechargeables but it does run through them quickly so I opted to order the ac adapter with the option of using the batteries if I needed mobility. I also opted to purchase a 1GB memory for it even though the 128 supplied is probably adequate for dealing with an hour of recording at a time. I also purchased a usb cord to eventually be able to download to my computers for editing and tweaking.
The manual is easy to read. Don't lose it since it takes a while to get a handle on multiple menus and toggles to get the most out of the recorder. I don't think there are pdf files available. Once using it for a bit it starts to come easier and more intuitively. I am still learning how to use the effects and rhythm functions to enhance my creations. The onboard mic seems pretty powerful, had to do one song over when playing my acoustic because of the clatter of my pup coming down the steps. I opted to buy a small powered condensor mic and pole to play my acoustic even though the onboard mic was probably ok. I can also plug my strat directly into the unit. I will get more effective with using this compact recorder as I use it more and study the manual. I have not learned to lay multiple tracks yet. Overall, I am impressed with this little recorder. It is perfect for my home recording uses.

  Lotsa Pros And Cons 
by Scott from USA, April 2007

I must say, a very "Pros and Cons" device. It is remarkably portable but is cumbersome to use. The effects and capabilities are vast, but it is difficult to know where you are in editing and in menus in general. It took me two sets of batteries to get somewhat comfortable with its navigation and deal with a song that was converted from an MP3 onto which I laid in a guitar track of mine. The Owners Manual is difficult to use; I was better off with a few hints from it, and then learning how by just doing. You do get about 3 hours of (alkaline) battery time if you set the Batt Save to 10 seconds (default is 30 secs for this display auto-dim feature). The guitar input effects are well done and sound good through the headphones, but they can't be used effectively outside the Micro BR, like into an amp---where they sounded terrible. If you have lots of time and lots of batteries to sit and edit with this unit (like on a 10-hour flight/bus ride) it may be worth it for you. Also I could not find a way (and this should be easy!) to determine how much memory is left; and it's all on the SD card. Mostly, it's just a really glorified MP3 player with an easy way to record/lay a track of guitar with good effects patches that are modifiable. I did not try the microphone input.ItemID:

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