Topic: best small recorder

[Dave_Scream]

If any R-05 related questions - shoot. Will be glad to answer. I did put on Youtube both unboxing video and a review, a demo and the guy I taped yesterday.

Thank you! for your review. I still cant make choice between Sony M-10 and Roland R-05 / Roland R-09HR.

Did you compared this recorders between each other and if yes why Roland R-05 ?

[F.O.Bean]

Just go with what mostly everyone has and buy a Sony M10 KILLER battery life, decent internal preamps and super small. Also, not to jinx myself, but the MIC-IN/LINE-IN of the M10 are built pretty ruggedly too And the M10 can take a pretty hot signal/level as well

[voltronic]

Just go with what mostly everyone has and buy a Sony M10 KILLER battery life, decent internal preamps and super small. Also, not to jinx myself, but the MIC-IN/LINE-IN of the M10 are built pretty ruggedly too And the M10 can take a pretty hot signal/level as well

Agreed - there's a reason so many of us use the M10.  I've also found that the M10's self-noise is low enough to reliably record very quiet performances through MIC-IN.  Here's the chamber choir performance I sang with / recorded this past Sunday:
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=123523.msg2049345#msg2049345

As it says in the post, I ran MIC IN at level 6, which had me peaking at -12dB but only hit that 2 or 3 times for the entire concert.  Most of the time the level was sitting around -20 to -30, and I was using a battery box - no preamp.  If the Sony's electronics were of lesser quality this wouldn't have worked.