Just took mine out on it's maiden voyage last night. It is super clean and quiet and really easy to use. It seems like they really thought this
one out. For a one hour and thirty minute show using 48v phantom the internal battery wasn't even a quarter down. The mic pres are very
hot. Make sure to enact the mic pad switch for anything louder than pure acoustic. I love the m/s monitoring. The metering is good.
I'd be interested in more of your opinion of the Dr100mkiii. You were obviously willing to pay $500?, I guess, for it even though it's a two track recorder. There are several other choices of recorders for $500 and under. So ---what were your thoughts in buying the DR100mkiii instead of one of the other products? If you have owned some other recorders that we commonly talk about (m10, 70d, etc), how does the mkiii compare in your opinion?
Hello-
I paid $399 delivered from B&H. I own or have owned Edirol R1, R09, R09hr, R-44, Sony m10, d50, Olympus ls-10 and ls-7, Tascam dr-680 mk II and Zoom F8. For what you get I think $399 is quite fair.
Many of these decks did not have mic preamps so I have used Lunatec v2, Sound Devices mp-2, mixpre and usbpre2. For an all in one that costs a fraction of some of my other portable rigs, I think bang
for the buck is extremely high. I haven't done a pure acoustic recording in a good hall yet but I have high hopes for when I do. We are lucky to have many flavors of good these days at reasonable prices.
From someone who used to sometimes lug around a Nak 600 with 8 D cell batteries this machine is a modern miracle.