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Placido Carrerotti
Published on 05/25/07 at 09:31
Best value:
Poor
I bought this device (found in France) on an American site (reliable) three months ago. I must say that my disappointment was great, the measurement of rave reviews from journalists who have obviously never thought about the use of this type of recorder.
Personally, I use it to record classical concerts and opera live (but someone who would make the audio report probably would feel the same concerns).
On the positive side, the built-in microphones are excellent quality for this use and the rendering is remarkable in these conditions, which are far from that recording in a studio. Memory is more than enough: 6 hours in CD quality (44 kHz) compared to 2 h for the same quality with a DAT tape. Operation is intuitive. The files are easily saved in a computer to be burned later.
However, contrary to what I understood in reading some think it is absolutely impossible to touch any knob does not come without a sound recording interfere: not therefore change the recording level to use the "divide" (which is used to create beaches on the fly), turn on the light to see the level of the meters, etc..
One solution: "test" the room during a performance: from 3 months, so I record twice, with my old DAT on the one hand, with my beautiful but stupid PCM D1 on the other.
Last drawback: price, high to buy and use. For when we did not have much time to save, or traveling, or simple prudence, must buy some spare memory cards. Then you have to spend time back on a medium compatible with a stereo base (or buy a chain that manages and plays wav files from a hard drive).
A nice tool which I awarded a failing grade because qu'inadapté that I think is its primary purpose: to record on the fly.
The device is however very convenient with an external microphone (jack: that is to say a discreet microphone!).
Updated May 2007: The device is now described on the website of Sony France (site business): however, there is still no distributor who proposes.
Personally, I use it to record classical concerts and opera live (but someone who would make the audio report probably would feel the same concerns).
On the positive side, the built-in microphones are excellent quality for this use and the rendering is remarkable in these conditions, which are far from that recording in a studio. Memory is more than enough: 6 hours in CD quality (44 kHz) compared to 2 h for the same quality with a DAT tape. Operation is intuitive. The files are easily saved in a computer to be burned later.
However, contrary to what I understood in reading some think it is absolutely impossible to touch any knob does not come without a sound recording interfere: not therefore change the recording level to use the "divide" (which is used to create beaches on the fly), turn on the light to see the level of the meters, etc..
One solution: "test" the room during a performance: from 3 months, so I record twice, with my old DAT on the one hand, with my beautiful but stupid PCM D1 on the other.
Last drawback: price, high to buy and use. For when we did not have much time to save, or traveling, or simple prudence, must buy some spare memory cards. Then you have to spend time back on a medium compatible with a stereo base (or buy a chain that manages and plays wav files from a hard drive).
A nice tool which I awarded a failing grade because qu'inadapté that I think is its primary purpose: to record on the fly.
The device is however very convenient with an external microphone (jack: that is to say a discreet microphone!).
Updated May 2007: The device is now described on the website of Sony France (site business): however, there is still no distributor who proposes.