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Offline Egor

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NEW Olympus ls-p1 and ls-p2 recorders
« on: February 17, 2016, 09:22:35 AM »
http://www.olympus.com.ru/site/ru/a/audio_systems/audio_recording/sound_music_recorders/ls_p2/index.html

I need your opinions about this devices....can ls-p1 and ls-p2 be better that ls-11? we know that ls-14 was awfull...because of the middle mic with 9000 level of noise))....

ls-11 has best preamps...and best sound of all olympus recorders...

what about ls-p1 and ls-p2?...
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Re: NEW Olympus ls-p1 and ls-p2 recorders
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2016, 09:38:15 AM »
^  Those things are tiny.  From the images I could find, it looks like only a mic input?  Maybe it's switchable from mic to line via a menu choice?  Kind of cool how you can directly plug it into a USB.  Olympus is claiming some M10-like record times on a single AAA battery, too...

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Re: NEW Olympus ls-p1 and ls-p2 recorders
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2016, 11:53:55 AM »
Looks like these models attempt to scale "music recorders" into the size of their "dictation/speech" recorders that have been impressively small for years.  Until I lost it, I had an Olympus speech recorder that would run for days on AAAs and picked up speech amazingly well. 

As with anything new, the proof is in how they actually perform.   

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Re: NEW Olympus ls-p1 and ls-p2 recorders
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2016, 01:35:56 PM »
Just browsed through the manual and found out that the units can only record at the following formats:

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[96.0 kHz/24 Bit]
[88.2 kHz/24 Bit]
[48.0 kHz/16 Bit]
[44.1 kHz/16 Bit]
[44.1 kHz mono]

That means that for 24 bit recordings, the sample rate must be set to either 88.2 kHz or 96 kHz. I find this a bit strange.

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Re: NEW Olympus ls-p1 and ls-p2 recorders
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2016, 04:11:04 PM »
MK4s/MK41s > nbob actives > tinybox/babynbox > M10/A10

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Re: NEW Olympus ls-p1 and ls-p2 recorders
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2016, 04:50:22 PM »
I was looking at these and could not find an owners manual.
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Re: NEW Olympus ls-p1 and ls-p2 recorders
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Re: NEW Olympus ls-p1 and ls-p2 recorders
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2016, 01:25:03 AM »
From the Olympus EU site: http://download.aws.olympus.eu/consumer/manuals/audio/LS-P1_LS-P2_MANUAL_EN.pdf...

I can't find any line input menu setting, so I guess no line input... That means I can't use it, but I do think this little machine looks nice and has some nice functions. The usb built-in with recharging battery internally and bluetooth output seem pretty nice. I hope Sony will come with a followup to the M10 soon :-)
MK4s/MK41s > nbob actives > tinybox/babynbox > M10/A10

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Re: NEW Olympus ls-p1 and ls-p2 recorders
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2018, 05:05:13 PM »
I finally borrowed one of these. It really is tiny. And as already stated, it does not have a separate line-in. However, the level controls seem to be able to bring the mic-in down to line levels. I'll try it out at the next show that has an opening band I'm not interested in...

Oh, and here's a size comparison.

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Re: NEW Olympus ls-p1 and ls-p2 recorders
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2018, 08:53:51 AM »
I have an ls-7 which is even smaller

 

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