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Hi, My organization is considering making recordings of
conferences/lectures that we do and one our people attend (Our main
thing is disseminating information relating to aquaculture). I am
trying to get them into it but since they barely have a concept of it
they aren't willing to put much money into it yet.

So. I am trying to track down an easy (I am the "techy-est" here,
kidna sad), cheap recording solution which I thought would be something
like a Mic and mp3 player/recorder (like some of iRiver's). But i
wanted to get some input from people that knew what they were talking
about (unlike me). The settings are usually such that putting a mic
right by the speaker isn't an option (I've tried, its always something,
either they don't want it by them, they walk around when they talk,
etc) so any suggestions of Mics that can pick up voice from a slight
distance (say i am sitting in the front row) and an MP3 player that can
store anywhere from 1-5 hours of reasonable quality sound. These
recordings don't have to be professional (those wanting to listen to
seminars about Shrimp in South East Asia etc is pretty small) but they
do need to be discernable.

Any help would be *greatly* appreciated!

You might want to try the newsgroup alt.audio.minidisc. The portable units
that record are pretty easy to use and many models have Mic in jack. If you
want an easy way to transfer to the PC, the new HiMD units will allow USB
transfers of tracks recorded using the Mic in jack.

These units fall between the flash based MP3 players and the HD based
players in terms of price and features. For the "low tech" user, MD is kind
of nice because it's easy to pop in a blank MD and start recording. Keep a
stack of blanks handy and the person doing the recording doesn't have to
mess with a PC at all. Once MD's are transferred to a PC, you can erase
them (takes about 10 seconds) and use them again.

Jeff
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