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NHRA Jr Drag Racing League Eastern Conference Finals Kicks off in Bristol

BRISTOL, Tenn. -- The NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League Eastern Conference Finals presented by ViperizerRacing.com officially kicked off today with more nearly 600 kids ages 8-17 taking to the track for initial time trials. The annual event hosts young racers and their families with competition in nine categories racing in half-scale dragsters at speeds up to 70 mph on the eighth-mile dragstrip. Racers are completing for both team and individual honors and a share of nearly $100,000 in savings bonds.

Time trials will continue on Friday along with round one of eliminations followed by final eliminations and the crowning of champions on Saturday in each of the eight age brackets: 8 to 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 to 17 and in the Jr. Comp class. The festivities actually kicked off nearly a week ago as Bristol Dragway hosted a number of specialty events leading up to the Jr. Drag Racing League Eastern Conference Finals including their Mike Boss event.

Seven of the eight 2010 champions are on the entry list and will be looking to defend their title from a year ago including Gage Esneault, Belle Rose, La; Dillan Kyle, Gay, Ga; Daniel Young, Palm Harbor, Fla; Sydney Coleman, Elkton, Md; Heather Boyko, North Hampton, Pa; Morgan Nappier, Hendersonville, Tenn; and Dillon Richards, Lake Charles, La. Maple Grove Raceway, Reading, Pa., are the defending Team Champions and look to repeat as well.

Gates open on Friday at 7:30 a.m. with racing set to begin at 8 a.m. Round 1 is at 2 p.m. followed by the annual racer cookout party. Saturday gets underway at 10 a.m. with gates opening at 8 a.m. For additional information call Bristol Dragway (423) 764-DRAG or visit www.BristolDragway.com. Additional event coverage can be found at http://jrdragster.nhra.

Boss Micro BR BR-80 Digital Recorder | HARRISMIX

When you consider that you can now bag software that offers you multi-track recording on your smartphone, the new Boss Micro BR BR-80 eight-track digital recorder might strike you as a bit old-school, like trading 3D movies for a cartoon flick book.

You can't even update your Facebook page on this thing for goodness' sake… But this is no quaint throwback. Boss has squeezed enough goodies into the big brother of the four-track Micro BR to make your dog and bone vibrate with fear. There's the multi-track recorder bit.

You get eight playback tracks, 64 virtual V-Tracks and a dedicated stereo rhythm track. Note: you can only record two tracks simultaneously on the BR-80.

Next up is Live Rec, a field recorder fed by an onboard stereo condenser mic, and eBand. The latter is chock-a-block with great-sounding backing tracks and a phrase trainer that lets you import your favourite songs, and isolate and slow down the bits you want to learn, all without altering the pitch. Not exactly groundbreaking, but it's useful.

Other treasures include real rhythm tracks (as opposed to MIDI files), quality COSM-based guitar, bass and vocal effects, and an onboard tuner.

The BR-80 is brilliantly intuitive. In other words, any numpty can work this thing. From recording basic tracks to adding effects at the mixing stage, every step is simple to implement - and undo if necessary.

It's really easy to record a live band practice with the onboard mic then transfer the result to the eight-track, add some overdubs and then play back the mastered song with eBand. You can also run the BR-80 as a recording interface with your computer via the USB socket.

The unit comes bundled with Cakewalk SONAR X1 LE software so you can further manipulate your tracks then back them up on your PC or upload them to your SoundCloud page.

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