About The Boss Br-80 Workshop Booklets; Getting Ready; Understanding The Symbols In This Booklet; Listening To The Br-80 - Boss MICRO BR BR-80 Workshop Manual

About the BOSS BR-80 Workshop Booklets

The BOSS MICRO BR® BR-80 is an awesome portable tool for any songwriter
or musician, especially if you're a guitarist. Packed into its convenient,
pocket-sized body are three incredibly useful tools: a stereo recorder for
capturing ideas and live sounds using the high-quality built-in mics, an
eight-track multitrack recorder for developing your songs, and an irresistibly
fun eBand jamming system. The MICRO BR® BR-80 also contains a library of
acclaimed BOSS COSM® amps and effects, as well as tons of rhythms you can
use in your songs. If you're a computer user, the MICRO BR® BR-80 can serve
as an effect-packed USB audio interface for your recording software, and it
comes with a copy of SONAR X1 LE for Windows.
Each MICRO BR® BR-80 Workshop booklet focuses on one topic, and is
intended as a companion to the MICRO BR® BR-80 Owner's Manual.
About This Booklet
Small as it is, the MICRO BR® BR-80's an amazingly potent device. This booklet
introduces you to its main features, giving you an idea of just how important
to your creative life the MICRO BR® BR-80 is about to become.

Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet

Throughout this booklet, you'll come across information that deserves
special attention—that's the reason it's labeled with one of the following
symbols.
A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.
A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.
Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid
possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.

Getting Ready

Throughout this booklet, we'll be referring to the MICRO BR
simply the "BR-80" for simplicity's sake.
The best way to give you a feel for the BR-80 is to fire it up and go exploring.

Listening to the BR-80

To listen to the BR-80, connect earbuds to the PHONES/LINE OUT jack on the
BR-80's left-side panel.
You can also use a pair of headphones as long as it has an 1/8" stereo
mini jack.
The PHONES/LINE OUT jack allows you to listen to the BR-80 through
any audio device or mixer—or even a car's music system—as long as it
has a stereo mini input jack into which you can connect the BR-80.
For the rest of this booklet, we're going to assume you're wearing
your earbuds or headphones, or are otherwise set up for listening to
the BR-80.
Power for the BR-80
You can supply power to the BR-80 in either of two ways, depending on
whatever's most convenient. You can run it from
•
a pair of AA batteries, or
•
AC power—using a Roland PSA-series adapter, sold separately.
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