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Looking for a digital recorder
- Thread starter jras20
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There are some quality hand-held digital recorders in the $200 to $400 category. You didn't define what is a "reasonable price". Once you get this recording on one of these dandy little machines in digital format, what are you going to do with it? An hour or two will fill it up. To make room for the next recording, what are to going to do to the first recording to clear out some new space?
You could store it on a computer hard-drive. You could "dub" it over to a CD or DVD disk. So to make this transfer OUT of the neat little recorder ONTO some stable storage material may mean going through a PC (or MAC if you prefer.)
So the next logical question is: why not cut out the middleman. Who needs the little digital recorder? If a computer is going to come into the process, just use your computer as the recorder and as the manager of storage.
IF, IF you know how to do this on a computer, you wouldn't be asking us this question in this discussion space so the real question becomes: how can we enable you, get you some training. It's not tough at all, but 15 years ago when I set out to learn to do it, it was a deep, dark, hidden secret and those who knew how to do it either didn't want share, didn't know how to share, or were to busy to share.
Do you have a friend who is computer savvy who will sit down and walk you through the process?
And if your savvy computer friend doesn't yet know the ins and outs of computer sound, I will volunteer to talk "computerese" to your friend so he/she can speak plain English to you. [you can reach me through the Personal Message feature of Radio-Info Boards. Click on my name and it will take you to PROFILE.]
Overly simple lesson: Plug an audio cable from your receiver to the line input of the computer sound card. The one think you will probably have to acquire is a bit of software that will let your computer record. (That toy that comes with Windows doesn't really cut it.) Cool Edit used to be very very affordable but it has been purchased by Adobe and the price has gone way up. (Features and quality are way up to match.)
Total Recorder is very affordable, but unless their newest version which I haven't downloaded has jumped way ahead, it is not a good editor and manipulator of the sound file to prepare it for storage.
Audacity is FREE and those who use it love it.
Once you get going you will wonder how you ever lived without your own digital recording AND EDITING ability.
You could store it on a computer hard-drive. You could "dub" it over to a CD or DVD disk. So to make this transfer OUT of the neat little recorder ONTO some stable storage material may mean going through a PC (or MAC if you prefer.)
So the next logical question is: why not cut out the middleman. Who needs the little digital recorder? If a computer is going to come into the process, just use your computer as the recorder and as the manager of storage.
IF, IF you know how to do this on a computer, you wouldn't be asking us this question in this discussion space so the real question becomes: how can we enable you, get you some training. It's not tough at all, but 15 years ago when I set out to learn to do it, it was a deep, dark, hidden secret and those who knew how to do it either didn't want share, didn't know how to share, or were to busy to share.
Do you have a friend who is computer savvy who will sit down and walk you through the process?
And if your savvy computer friend doesn't yet know the ins and outs of computer sound, I will volunteer to talk "computerese" to your friend so he/she can speak plain English to you. [you can reach me through the Personal Message feature of Radio-Info Boards. Click on my name and it will take you to PROFILE.]
Overly simple lesson: Plug an audio cable from your receiver to the line input of the computer sound card. The one think you will probably have to acquire is a bit of software that will let your computer record. (That toy that comes with Windows doesn't really cut it.) Cool Edit used to be very very affordable but it has been purchased by Adobe and the price has gone way up. (Features and quality are way up to match.)
Total Recorder is very affordable, but unless their newest version which I haven't downloaded has jumped way ahead, it is not a good editor and manipulator of the sound file to prepare it for storage.
Audacity is FREE and those who use it love it.
Once you get going you will wonder how you ever lived without your own digital recording AND EDITING ability.
I do some recording from radio to PC (mostly because I have my Sirius unit hooked up to the PC thanks to an audio cable I have going from the "audio out" part of the Sirius to the "line in" part of my PC's sound card. In fact, on Friday, I recorded a National opening from 7/25/78 that As it Happens ran because it was the 30th anniversary of the birth of the "Test Tube Baby". And it helps that I have a massively large hard drive (about 230 GB) so I can store the recordings. (Oh, and I do the editing using the software that came with the sound card, which is a Creative Sound Blaster.)
This subject has been discussed here before... a couple years ago I think....here is a link to a previous thread dealing with this subject...Hope it helps.
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,24907.msg183565.html#msg183565
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,24907.msg183565.html#msg183565
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jras20 said:
I was going to suggest the "Radio Your Way" from PogoProducts.com but they have been discontinued!!! I have the analog device from a few years ago, but never got around to getting the digital version. I have no idea why it was discontinued, it was a quality product. AM/FM tuner and recording device integrated in a palm sized unit. You can still read it about it on the site, but you can't buy it new. Try eBay.
This is a more than decent solution:
I use a ZOOM H2 - a great field recorder. Great for live band recording or newsgathering. For airchecking, it has a line input so you can hook it up to a radio. Records mp3 up to 320 kbps. With proper SD card, can record up to 16GB.
Astounding sound and just $199. I got mine at bswusa.com
Product info:
http://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=H-2
http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1916&brandID=4
ZOOM H2 tutorials on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAOJQ_78Y7I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGUgmV9nR0s
jras20 said:
Here's software for about $20 that would record from your cassette player to your computer and convert to mp3 format. You would need a line from your player to your PC sound card. Radio Shack would have the proper connections.
http://www.dak.com/Reviews/2050story.cfm
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