a.palfreyman
pfm Member
What's the best solution for making some digital recordings, not computer based? This will just be ambient outside sounds in stereo. Is DAT any good, although it seems DAT machines are about £200 or thereabouts on ebay.
Slight aside - has anyone tinkered with the ambisonic Zoom H3? Looks like brilliant value (though I don't have surround playback!)
Absolutely, I’ve used the little Zoom recorders for years, both via their built in mics and as a record device for an external source. They’re superb for the money.What you want is a portable field recorder which are battery operated devices which typically write to an SD card that you install. The cheaper ones have mics built in, the more expensive ones either have optional mic inputs, or no mics and expect you to provide these yourself.
There are a number of options, but if it's just for a few informal things in non-challenging conditions, the choices are really quite large, and the key is really how small you want the device to be. Have a look here:
https://www.thomann.de/gb/portable_recorders.html
The cheaper Zoom models are a great place to start
Would they do a decent job of recording digital copies (in real time of course) of my vinyl?Absolutely, I’ve used the little Zoom recorders for years, both via their built in mics and as a record device for an external source. They’re superb for the money.
Would they do a decent job of recording digital copies (in real time of course) of my vinyl?
Yep, absolutely no problem.Would they do a decent job of recording digital copies (in real time of course) of my vinyl?
As i've mentioned the micro usis, i'd just say, you can't go far wrong with the stuff that LOM have been making. We've also got a Geophon which produces some very odd results, perfect for ambient sound design stuff which is what it gets used for. Their stuff is well made, and different enough to differentiate itself from the cheap (but still rather good quality) condensers and electret mics that seem to have flooded the market in recent years. Definitely look them up if you want something stealthy or just different.
https://store.lom.audio/collections/contact-microphones/products/geofon?variant=29549909442647
https://store.lom.audio/collections...s/products/mikrousi-pro?variant=6174867128352