[access-uk] Re: accessible hd or solid state recorders?
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:47:05 -0000
Well Simon, I'd say you aren't exactly spoilt for choice if it is a totally
accessible solid
state/HD recorder you are after.
It isn't professional gear, but the PTR2 does a very good job, as you most
likely know, but
it records to CF cards and CD and is pretty portable, well, by my standards.
Steve Nutt thinks highly of the Edirol R09 and he and other users would tell
you how they
negotiate using it as totals. From my standpoint its lack of a monitoring
speaker is a minus
point.
Beyond these two machines, it is down to scanning through the BCT reviews, of
which there
are quite a few. Neal Ewers is a name that crops up a lot. He reviews stuff
from the very
exotic to more affordable stuff like the new Zoom recorder. There is also a
review of the
Fostex FR2 solid state recorder - if you really want to spend that amount of
money! The
reviewer is also totally blind but gives a good account of how he works with
the machine and
what isn't accessible to him, which is quite a lot.
An unknown is the new Marantz CDr310 which is an HD/CD portable recorder,
doing wav format
and MP3 at standard 44.1Khz sampling rates. Balanced Mic inputs etc. Take a
look at:
http://www.inquitaudio.co.uk/html/news.html
This outfit does, or did do, a sale or return or similar service, but as you'll
see if you
browse about they've had to take stuff back and resell at what looks like a
loss, so I
wonder if they're still offering this service.
HTH.
From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of goshawk
Sent: 06 February 2007 6:19AMrs?
hello list,
does anyone know of any accessible hard disk or solid state recorders?
am preferably looking for something at least reasonably portable, but not
microscopic, that
will record stereo high quality audio, and take external mics. it should be
able to record
at least 4 hours of high quality stereo audio, and be able to download it to a
computer with
out having to send it in real time via the sound card. if possible, I would
prefer something
with manual record levels, and would like to be able to tell for certain if the
machine is
actually recording, paused or what ever, and I am totally blind. I am not that
bothered
about whether or not I can edit on the machine, but it would be a bonus if that
side of it
was accessible as well.
thanks in advance for any help received on this.
Simon
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