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Title: Tape recorders
Post by: EdBA on October 18, 2012, 11:48:00 PM

Hello!

Is any of these machines worth to get to obtain a more or less decent sounding recording? I want to give it a try in an indoor large arena and I thought of taking in a digital voice recorder (I want to record it even with this device; better having something than expecting someone else does a better recording), but I was wondering if these are better...

SONY
TCM-200
(http://www.epinions.com/prices/pr-Sony_TCM-200DV_Handheld_Voice_Recorder)

SONY
TCM-454
(http://www.epinions.com/482422_Sony_TCM_454VK_Micro_Cassette_Recorder?sb=1)

No chance to get a professional recorder at the moment, neither an external microphone - I have an omnidirectional one, but it is very small (tie-clip).

Any advice on them?
Thanks in advance,
Eduardo.

Title: Re: Tape recorders
Post by: bryonsos on October 18, 2012, 11:54:41 PM

No

Title: Re: Tape recorders
Post by: twatts (pants are so over-rated...) on October 19, 2012, 12:18:04 AM

Save your money...  Use this show as motivation to save up and get a nice Recorder that will do it right...

I went through a bunch of half-ass gear before I figured out it was a waste of money and slowed me down from getting what I should have been saving for in the first place...   

Terry

Title: Re: Tape recorders
Post by: ScoobieKW on October 19, 2012, 12:35:59 AM

Decent entry level recorders include the Sony M10 and Tascam DR-2D these are in the 120-220 price range.

External mics, external mics, external mics. Higher quality and better ability to place them where the sound is good.

Other than the "I was there feeling", the chances of recordings with these handhelds having musical value is almost nil.

Start saving and when you have $300 or more, we'll point you in a direction that'll make you and the people you share with happy.

Title: Re: Tape recorders
Post by: EdBA on October 19, 2012, 12:49:18 AM

Thank you guys.
I will then try to get something better later, and will take this digital voice recorder in just to have an own recording in case no one else does a good one.

Title: Re: Tape recorders
Post by: George2 on October 19, 2012, 01:00:38 PM

What digital voice recorder?

Title: Re: Tape recorders
Post by: greenone on October 19, 2012, 02:52:56 PM

Have you ever gotten a phone call from someone at a concert? That's basically what your recording will sound like with a voice recorder.

Voice recorders are great for recording voices, at normal speaking levels. But musical instruments can put out frequencies far below and far above that range, and they will not be captured faithfully or at all by a voice recorder. Plus then you've got the loudness factor. If this were a quiet acoustic show, maybe...but for anything amplified, it'll be overloaded.