FIELD RECORDING

[grandpa_shig]

thanks dudes. yeah im prolly going with the md regardless. mostly based on price but i have also had a few in the past and i liked them.

i have used one of those ipod mic thingies which works really well. however, it has the sound of a fricken youtube video.

i have noticed a lot of compression on a lot of npr stories and if theyre using flash drive recordables, id rather stick with the md. i mean, if i notice the compression, then it must really be fucked up. ok, thanks to everyone for the help.


and no fighting in my threads you babybitches.

 

[the_average_man]

the edirol R-09 is to be steered clear of. Rolands UK repair guy was telling me he's had quite a few to repair....

I phoned him up to get my R-1 fixed, but don't let that put you off!!!! He said the R-1's are much better, but now discontinued you can still get brand new ones if you look hard enough...

 

[pjl2000xl]

Definitely do not listen to anyone who has previously weighed in on this thread.

Um, what? So as someone who A) previously owned and used a MD recorder B) Uses portable digital recorders on a regular basis for radio work C) Used to do audio for video production using a wide variety of mics...

My contributions shouldn't be taken seriously? And this is coming from the staunch Anticon fan / dude who tried to recommend a common turd as some kind of great Psych record?

Yeah im no authority but i work at NPR and I used to work at CBS/NBC running audio with minidiscs. THEY ARE COMPLETE SHIT. I never used any of the current flash recorders, so i cant testify if they are titties or not, but spec wise they arent bad for the price. I just provided new equip that you can buy in your price range. And the convinces of the USB transfer will save you mad time and headaches. If you are trying to discretely record someone its easy to use a small unit like them instead of setting up 2 mics X-Y configed. But hey you guys seem to have it all figured out.

I actually use a sony DAT or an HHB CD-R in the field with 2 sm-81 condensors, which is way out of the budget. And i dont just do broadcast recordings.

 

[grandpa_shig]

any thoughts on the zoom products? they seem kinda cheap. i keep flip flopping between md and these flash joints. im looking at used non-sony md's and the m-audio II and zoom joints. all consumer grade thingies.

 

[funksnotdead]

shigles my man. no md.

i do all my recording with an iriver 340 and an AT822 .

iriver 340 is great, 40gb hdd, straight to wav with great ADAC. AT822 has some boner factor, but is pretty sweet assuming it is not too conspicous for you. i just hide the thing up my sleeve when i need to be low pro. the whole setup is tiny, easy to use, monitor, conceal, can record a ton of shit, etc.

 

[grandpa_shig]

shigles my man. no md.

i do all my recording with an iriver 340 and an AT822 .

iriver 340 is great, 40gb hdd, straight to wav with great ADAC. AT822 has some boner factor, but is pretty sweet assuming it is not too conspicous for you. i just hide the thing up my sleeve when i need to be low pro. the whole setup is tiny, easy to use, monitor, conceal, can record a ton of shit, etc.

WELL HOLY SHIT!

man we all should hang out when jeffie gets back from bosnia or wherevers.

that iriver thing, it sounds alright? ive used an ipod to do field recording but it sounded like shit. coulda been the shitty mic but it sounded all compressed too.

 

[Tabnetic]

any thoughts on the zoom products? they seem kinda cheap. i keep flip flopping between md and these flash joints. im looking at used non-sony md's and the m-audio II and zoom joints. all consumer grade thingies.

I haven't heard any good things aboutt hat zoom h4. If you're buying md you should really be buying Hi-md. I don't know anything about that iriver.Steer clear of these types of products, because they aren't intended for recording. The ability to record on these is an afterthought that is used for marketing. Non-dedicated recorders are going to give you crappy rsults. Their compression algorithms are going to be crappy. You want minimal compression for field recordings because less compression equals more detail, and more spatialization.

 

[spelunk]

shigles my man. no md.

i do all my recording with an iriver 340 and an AT822 .

iriver 340 is great, 40gb hdd, straight to wav with great ADAC. AT822 has some boner factor, but is pretty sweet assuming it is not too conspicous for you. i just hide the thing up my sleeve when i need to be low pro. the whole setup is tiny, easy to use, monitor, conceal, can record a ton of shit, etc.

Yes, this is the truth right here. I'm actually thinking about picking one of these up so I don't have to check out a recorder from the station when I do interviews, and cause I don't have any portable music player at the moment. iRiver gear always sounds GREAT, they're one of the few portable music player companies who spend time making sure that their products actually sound good and have decent analog stages behind their converters.

I can't urge you enough to steer clear of Minidiscs. All these people on here keep talking about compression algorithms without having any idea what they're saying - if you're recording straight to a WAV file, there is no compression. I have had minidiscs and players break, as have many other people I know.

 

[grandpa_shig]

see, the only really good cons against MDs are that they will break. but trust me when i say i can break anything and ive been demoing some of these digital recorders and theres no way i wouldnt break one of those too. i am more concerned with the compression thingy and quite frankly i dont know what it all means, but i can sure hear the results. i am prolly gon go with the m-audio microtrack although i am still open to the iriver route depending on cost.

anyways, thanks everyone for the help. i might still have some questions later.