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In article MiFad.3545$j15.444@trnddc07 writes:
With all the iPods and other HD recorders out there, you'd think that one of
them would have tumbled to the idea that you could also do decent recordings
from a mic using one of their units.
Yeah, you'd think so, but the reality is that most of the people who
buy this sort of stuff aren't interested in live recording. They'd
rather just download music that someone else has recorded.
There are some minidisk recorders out there that have mini plugs for
microphones, and apparently have a better quality that they record at.
There are a few decent recorders out there that would (and do) serve
for the "serious casual" recordist. The worst part of all of them is
the mini phone jack.
But...if you were looking for a basic mono or stereo recorder that had
pretty decent sound, and was hopefully smaller than the typical DAT or
cassette recorder, what would you look at?
A crystal ball. The trend seems to be toward solid state memory which,
until the prices come down to what we've learned to pay for mechanical
recording media, will pretty much be "fixed media" - that is, you own
one memory card, you record on it, and when it's full, you dump the
memory to another medium before you can record more. PITA, I think.
NOt a big deal if you record a couple of shows a month - you can
probably find a few minutes to set up a transfer, let it run, label
the CDs or DVDs, and store them. But if you're working every day,
that's not a good way to go.
I saw a brochure on a new Edirol compact flash card recorder (still
has the damn mini jack) and they say that there will be a more
professoinal hard drive based one coming, perhaps to an AES show very
soon. The Core Sound PDA audio interface is kind of a neat idea, but
it needs an outboard mic preamp (which Core Sound also makes, and it's
a pretty good one) and that's too many pieces for me to want to trust.
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