Boss BR-800 Digital Recorder

Leap ahead to 2010 and be amazed by the Boss BR-800 Digital Recorder and all it brings to the table. The Boss BR-800 is a complete, portable music production system and USB audio interface. Everything you’ll need to make professional-sounding full-scale productions is right there in the box, ready to roll. It has 64 virtual tracks of recording. You can record 4 tracks at a time and listen back to 8 at a time. All your work is saved to the included 1 GB SD card (larger capacity SD cards of 2 GB up to 32 GB are also supported) or to a computer via the built-in USB bus.

The BR-800 boasts a long list of features to help make your productions stand out and be fully realized. Onboard is Roland's famous COSM guitar/bass amp modeling, acoustic guitar body modeling with the AP-1 preamp, powerful effects from the Boss GT-10, and vocal effects from the VE-20, including harmony, double tracking, real-time pitch correction and more. The BR-800 includes inputs for guitar, bass, microphone with 48V phantom power, and 4 XLR and ¼” inputs. The built-in high-quality stereo condenser microphones help make field recording or spontaneous idea capture a breeze. The interactive EZ Recording feature helps guide you through the recording process, acting as your personal recording guru and making operations easy. Sweet! The built-in drum machine, taken from the popular Boss DR-880, is a godsend and can turn out very realistic-sounding drum tracks. But wait — as if all this weren’t enough, the Boss BR-800 also acts as a USB audio interface and control surface. You can control your favorite DAW software and tap into the BR-800’s internal effects.

You can record at CD quality 44.1 KHz and convert at 24 bit in WAV format. USB can be used for audio I/O, MIDI I/O, file transfer and BUS power operation. At only 2 pounds, the BR-800 is light and easy to carry. It runs on the included AC adaptor or 6 AA alkaline batteries, giving you approximately 5.5 hours of recording time.

The Boss BR-880 comes packaged with Cakewalk SONAR 8.5 LE software including audio loops and backing tracks. Everything runs via the unit’s touch sensors, enabling a slim, compact design that is perfect for anywhere and everywhere your recording needs take you. The Boss BR-800 Digital Recorder — don’t leave home without it!