For a small, affordable, high quality, portable - I am just about to go for the new Olympus LS-10.
The above links to the American site (which give a rotatable view) - the UK suite is HERE.
Very nice little beastie - and *metal* not plastic.
i have seen that, and as handy as that is, it is well out of my price range at the mo'
for me it was always a toss up with second hand stuff or a zoom h2
okay, just as an update... not that i think you paaaaarticularly care too much
just purchased an iriver h120... which i saw for a v. decent price, mostly because of the doubling up as an m3 player/ large storage device, stealth and the ability to add to it with battery boxes / pre-amps and all that jazz once i've figured out how ot use and what all that stuff is !
just worried i may have made a wrnd decison considering my funds are low and i still need a mic
would a t-shaped mini mic be okay to use for field recordings whilst i sort my finances out (which could take a while)
are there any examples of a irver h120 with t-mic (no batter box/preamp...) to listen to?
as always any help is much appreciated
one day i'll be able to give some useful input in this forum, i swears
I don't think you will go wrong with the h120. I have had one for only a month now and love it!
I know from first hand experience that in order to use this recorder effectively, you have to turn the gain up quite a bit especially for very quiet situations. This only means that if you're trying to capture audio at a low setting, the pre amps in the recorder may introduce some noise. I have a cheap t mic that came with my minidisc recorder...I never thought to try it out on the h120, I think I will do that tonight. it is absolutely useless on the minidisc recorder since it records TOO well--you get a lot of the disc spinning up. I don't think this will be a problem with the h120, though.
If you don't know about the rockbox software for the h120, go check it out.
cheers, i do feel a bit more confident about my whimsical purchase now, and hopefully i will be able to upgrade my kit in the future
i am definitely reading up on the rockbox and have watched a handy video tutorial for installingit (on youtube) just preparing for when my shipment comes in
quite excited now, havent recorded something for ages
(i've been literally TAPING things on dictaphone and off the radio, which is still loads of fun)