I like to think up a lot of rock n blues riffs in my head, the problem is I
always forget them before I get a pen and paper or a guitar or something.
Can someone recommend a cheap ($40) and small digital recorder that could
help me?

Dave

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:50:15 GMT, "DaveDrummer"
wrote:

I like to think up a lot of rock n blues riffs in my head, the problem is I
always forget them before I get a pen and paper or a guitar or something.
Can someone recommend a cheap ($40) and small digital recorder that could
help me?

The only digital thing I've seen in that price range is an old
Pentium PC (yes, with soundcard) at the thrift store, but it's
probably too big to fit your idea of small, especially when you add
(CRT-based) monitor, keyboard and mouse.
For more money you can get a Minidisc, portable MP3 recorder or
something similar.
If you drop the "digital" requirement (which is artificial anyway)
you can get a portable cassette recorder within your price range at
(once again) the thrift store.


Dave


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I like to think up a lot of rock n blues riffs in my head, the problem is
I
always forget them before I get a pen and paper or a guitar or something.
Can someone recommend a cheap ($40) and small digital recorder that could
help me?

Dave

Why does t have to be digital?

A cassette or microcassette dictation unit will serve for this purpose. The
sound won't be great, but neither is a $40 digital recorder.









Richard H. Kuschel
"I canna change the law of physics."-----Scotty

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I like to think up a lot of rock n blues riffs in my head, the problem is I
always forget them before I get a pen and paper or a guitar or something.
Can someone recommend a cheap ($40) and small digital recorder that could
help me?

Why does it have to be digital? How about a cheap analog cassette
recorder? That's what you can get for $40, unless you're willing to
settle for telephone answering machine quality.



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Ben Bradley wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:50:15 GMT, "DaveDrummer"
wrote:

I like to think up a lot of rock n blues riffs in my head, the problem is I
always forget them before I get a pen and paper or a guitar or something.
Can someone recommend a cheap ($40) and small digital recorder that could
help me?

The only digital thing I've seen in that price range is an old
Pentium PC (yes, with soundcard) at the thrift store, but it's
probably too big to fit your idea of small, especially when you add
(CRT-based) monitor, keyboard and mouse.
For more money you can get a Minidisc, portable MP3 recorder or
something similar.
If you drop the "digital" requirement (which is artificial anyway)
you can get a portable cassette recorder within your price range at
(once again) the thrift store.

Zoom makes a little box that I see a lot of folks using, which is about
three times your price range. If you have a palm pilot or into the palm
pilot thing, you can probably get a cheap voice grade interface for that.

OR you can make it a point to carry around a pocket notepad with you wherever
you go. This is useful for all kinds of things.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

I carry an Olympus digital voice recorder for these situations. You can
get cheaper ones from Sony, Panasonic, Olympus. Mine is small enough to
carry in my suit pocket. Do a search on eBay for "digital voice recorder".

An analog tape machine is much bigger, unless you go for the ones which use
answering machine tapes.
If you want to actually record yourself playing, most have a built-in mic
which isn't very good fro that purpose (but is fine for dictating/singing
into just to preserve the riff/idea).

--
Now Go Play!

Craig Ramseur


(Scott Dorsey) wrote in
:

Ben Bradley wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:50:15 GMT, "DaveDrummer"
wrote:

I like to think up a lot of rock n blues riffs in my head, the problem
is I always forget them before I get a pen and paper or a guitar or
something. Can someone recommend a cheap ($40) and small digital
recorder that could help me?

The only digital thing I've seen in that price range is an old
Pentium PC (yes, with soundcard) at the thrift store, but it's
probably too big to fit your idea of small, especially when you add
(CRT-based) monitor, keyboard and mouse.
For more money you can get a Minidisc, portable MP3 recorder or
something similar.
If you drop the "digital" requirement (which is artificial anyway)
you can get a portable cassette recorder within your price range at
(once again) the thrift store.

Zoom makes a little box that I see a lot of folks using, which is about
three times your price range. If you have a palm pilot or into the palm
pilot thing, you can probably get a cheap voice grade interface for
that.

OR you can make it a point to carry around a pocket notepad with you
wherever you go. This is useful for all kinds of things.
--scott

You could also go for a Zoom PS-02, used for about $100. It is a 3 track
digital recorder with built-in effects for guitar and voice, and built in
drum patterns too. You can record directly into it, as well as use it for
a singing-into handy recorder.

--
Now Go Play!

Craig Ramseur


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In article
writes:

I like to think up a lot of rock n blues riffs in my head, the problem
is I always forget them before I get a pen and paper or a guitar or
something. Can someone recommend a cheap ($40) and small digital
recorder that could help me?

Why does it have to be digital? How about a cheap analog cassette
recorder? That's what you can get for $40, unless you're willing to
settle for telephone answering machine quality.



--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo