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Well if you haven’t checked out my site at Reverb Nation yet CLICK HERE TO DO SO!! I suggest signing up as a fan too and this will give you a lot of great benefits!! You will get your own page which will give you a list of Artists playing in your area at clubs and events and you can search for Music in any Genre and usually listen to it for free and many time download it for Free too. I signed up and downloaded my tunes and also have been checking out all the other artists and local events! Can enjoy a few of my songs just by playing them there!

Well just recorded a new tune “Purple Microdot” which includes a strong 70’s bass background and uses the boss GT 10 Purple Stack setting for a Hendrix-like guitar sound. I again set the drums using the Pattern setting and not the arrangement setting so the beat would remain the same throughout the song. I heard a dance tune with a nice bass part that kept repeating in my head and when I got this drum pattern going and slowed it to 80BPM suddenly it mutated to this Bass which reminds me of some 70’s bands. Played the guitar on several effects and finally found the purple stack setting which fit with the bass beat. I added a short set of lyrics just for fun using the COSM voice effects. I found that I could make even my voice sound fairly good by using the FX3 setting and tweaking it a little. I am planning on adding a video on basic use of the BR1600 to my JolietJeff website soon, since the manual from Roland is hard to follow. I then just sent the final take to my eridol recorder since I haven’t had time to try mastering a track on the BR1600 so can hear a little degradation of the sound on the recording you can listen to now at Reverbnation just click here!

I just bought a new Roland BossBR-1600CD digital recorder unit and am trying to learn how to use it. I bought this unit to expand my recording capabilities from 2 to 8 instruments or vocal tracks at one time. Also the unit has some great special effects and will burn the CD’s from it’s built in hard drive. I was able to plug in multiple instruments and record them on the unit while using one of the drum patterns that is built into the unit. But unfortunately the drum pattern ended after about 1 1/2 minutes so need to find how to extend the pattern’s play time and use many of the other functions. This unit comes with a lot of special effects but am finding that when using multiple tracks many of them might not work? Well I will be adding comments as I learn new things about using the unit although seems like a very long task. Was hoping this would be easy but this is not true. My next task will be to extend the drum pattern for 5 minutes and also learning to record a pattern of my own and save it. Got started on this but after about an hour gave up for the day. IF YOU HAVE SOME TIPS LEAVE FOR US HERE!

I Just posted and article on my main site JolietJeff.com on how to record your music on a computer based system. It is very basic but could give you the start up information you need. After reading the info you can post any creative suggestions for the article here! Click here to read the article or to go to my JolietJeff site!!