Re: [GD-General] Good field recorder recommendations?

[Colin F. <cp...@ea...>]

2003 February 5th
Wednesday

I'm not contributing very much to this thread when I
say that I bought a digital recorder with USB that
looked and cost like a microcassette recorder -- 
and, to my surprise (NOT!), it sounded just like
a microcassette recorder, even when I attached 
a professional microphone to it, uploaded the
resulting audio file to my PC, and played it
on decent speakers.

I don't understand why even the cheapest consumer
electronic devices have anything less than AWESOME
frequency response and recording quality.

My Nomad II MP3 player sounds AWESOME but can only
record "live" audio through a built-in microphone,
and my keychain USB drive holds 256MB, so why can't
someone build an inexpensive device to record 
sound over the full range of hearing (20Hz --> 20kHz)?

Maybe a small laptop computer isn't a bad way to
do this stuff!  The sound input can be pretty
good, and you have lots of recording format options,
and you could burn a CD-ROM on location!

--- Colin

cp...@ea...