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Roland CD-2 observations
A micro-review of the Roland CD-2 portable CD-recorder.
My voice teacher purchased one of these last week, and I've had its custody for a few days. (I recommended a used "pro" CD recorder plus cheap pre-amp and cheap microphones--her living room appearance could not handle that, and my warnings of media compatibilty issues alarmed her. Her target applcation: Record student lessons (mostly junior high school, some high school and adults). Send them home with a CD they can use to hear how their voice responded to instruction, remind them of their assignments, and a few minutes of accompaniment for rehearsal purposes. Previous method: a $60 Radio Shack small compact cassette recorder with tiny, lousy, onboard microphone, and (shudder) VOX. Roland suitability to task summary: + Massive upgrade in sound quality from the onboard mics compared to RS compact cassette. Subtle vocal nuance pretty well captured. + Very wide media compatibility: no failures to record or finalize in over ten different samples of CD-RW and CD-R media, ranging from ancient (CD-RW labelled as 2x) to modern (CD-R labelled as 52X, CD-RW labelled as 12X). + Finalize times with ancient media about 1 minute, modern media 20 to 30 seconds. - Really unpleasant capture of CD drive operating sounds by the onboard microphones. These are especially dramatic if the capability to increment the track number is exercised. They are not, however, loud enough to compromise appreciably the pedagological goal (you can still hear very subtle vocal nuance, and the sound is otherwise much better than I expected from tiny integrated microphones). I could comment in more detail on other aspects of the machine, but am unsure whether the group regards this machine and myself as too far afield from its subject matter to consume posting bandwidth. |
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Roland CD-2 observations
Any addition to the lexicon is appreciated, cheers.
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