Turning Off The Internal Microphone; Adjusting The Input Sensitivity - Boss BR-864 Owner's Manual

Recording/playing back a song
[MIC]
Select to record the signal from a microphone connected to
the MIC jack or from the internal microphone.
When the MIC indictor for the INPUT SELECT button is lit,
you can use both the microphone connected to the MIC jack
and the internal microphone simultaneously.
* Your BR-864 is shipped with its internal microphone turned
on. When not using the internal microphone, be sure to turn it
off (see next section).
[LINE]
Select this when you wish to record the sound of an
instrument or CD player connected to the LINE jacks.
[SIMUL]
To record the vocal and guitar at the same time, press
[GUITAR/BASS] and [MIC] simultaneously. Both indicators
light, telling you that simultaneous recording is now
possible.
• When two recording tracks are selected, the GUITAR/
BASS is recorded to Track 1, 3, 5, 7, and the MIC is
recorded to Track 2, 4, 6, 8.
• When one recording track is selected, the GUITAR/
BASS and MIC are mixed and then recorded.

Turning off the internal microphone

To use only the microphone connected to the MIC jack, you
must first turn off the internal microphone.
fig.00-410
1. Press [UTILITY].
2. Press CURSOR [
] [
and press [ENTER].
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1 4
3
2
2,3
] to move the cursor to "SYS,"
fig.00-411d
3. Press CURSOR [
] [
turn off the microphone with the TIME/VALUE dial.
fig.00-412d
4. Press [UTILITY] (or press [EXIT] repeatedly) to return
to the Play screen.
* During updating, "Keep power on!" appears in the upper line
of the display, while the lower line shows what is being
processed.

Adjusting the input sensitivity

When input from GUITAR/BASS or MIC is selected, adjust
their input sensitivity with the relevant SENS knob.
fig.00-412a
In order to record at a good sound level, you should adjust
the input levels so that the PEAK indicator lights
momentarily when a guitar is strummed strongly or vocals
are sung loudly.
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