Topic: Stealthing a recorder into a summer festival

[andy_landy]

Damn, a few days ago I was like "max 200€, max 200€, max 200€"...

welcome to our world

fwiw i have an m10, and yes it sucks that the m10 is so pricy over here, but it's a solid piece of kit and the battery life is insane (that was the deal-clincher for me)

[Phuncz]

Yeah the battery life is what is really appealing to me too. When I'm going to a festival for a few days, I don't want to carry around a 24-pack of AA batteries if I can run with 4 spares.

[bryonsos]

Yeah the battery life is what is really appealing to me too. When I'm going to a festival for a few days, I don't want to carry around a 24-pack of AA batteries if I can run with 4 spares.

If you use lithiums, you can run a whole Fest on one set.

[Phuncz]

What kind are you referring to ? Because the only Lithium-ion batteries I know are 3.7V cells or made up of a multiple of those.

[bryonsos]

Energizer lithium AAs is what I use. They are disposable, not rechargeable. Behind a preamp, I've gotten >50hrs off of a pair. Running PIP I would bet they'll go 20 at least.

[JackoRoses]

Whatever you do, BUY mics.  Save a bit more to get a real setup.

I'm trying to but I can't now justify spending 300$/€ extra on something I've not made up my mind about. Not that I don't want them, but I'm still searching  which ones. The mic department is very new for me and I'm still exploring stuff like wind noise reduction, stereo seperation, mic placement, etc.
If I can find something I'm confident is the best for my purpose and it justifies the cost, I'll go for it.

The Roland R-05 has been widely recommended to people in Europe, where it is much cheaper than the PCM-M10. You might also check it out.

I checked it out, but at 199€, it's only 20€ cheaper than the Sony. I'm still partial for the Sony in that perspective.

EDIT: delving deeper into microphones, I'm looking for some locally and this one seems reasonably priced: Soundman OKM II available for <199€ incl. power supply
Hmm, I can get this one and the Sony M10 for about 400€.
Damn, a few days ago I was like "max 200€, max 200€, max 200€"...

well for the love of fucking god, (or maybe that's the queen these days) don't waste your time recording without external mics.
Or we will all make fun of your internal mic all in one recording.