i was perusing amazon (i have lots of spare time) and i saw that the nomad muvo2 by creative was 200 dollars. it had a 4 gig capacity and was portable, etc. and i knew the old nomads could tape concerts at 44.1kHz/16 (or even higher? i think..). yes i know they were battery drainers and stuff. but its better than spending a lot of money on a portable DAT like a d8 or m1, which isnt even supported by major manufactuers anymore..
so onto my point, i want to be able to record lossless shows.
i have access to a nice pair or neumann caps and phantom power, but i need a device to record it to.
i was reading their site, and there is firmware upgrades which allows the muvo2 to record. it says "voice or fm" recording functionality....
i want to know if it can a) record via the 1/8th out headphone jack...(like if i can put my mic -> preamp -> muvo, and have it record) and b) if it can record at 44.1 kHz/16 bit...
if anyone knows, it'd be a great help if they could tell me
and you'll be helping the community out in the long run since i'll be taping shows for it ;-P (i was going to tape the vines/jet/living end/neon show at avalon in boston, but alas, no recorder, so couldnt.)
thanks
for $179 or less get a refurb 20GB jb3 off of ebay, proven to record 16bit and up to 48khz...muvo is not proven to do anything and only 4gb is pitiful.
the 4gb is tiny, so it's far easier to stealth, though
and dont the JB3's eat batteries like mad? I hear it only gets 20 minutes of run time...
Quote from: charades on March 29, 2004, 03:46:36 PM
the 4gb is tiny, so it's far easier to stealth, though
and dont the JB3's eat batteries like mad? I hear it only gets 20 minutes of run time...
I don't know where you heard that. For recording you'll get about 3 hours out of each battery, 11 for playback.
The Creative site has no technical specs on the Muvo 2, making me think that they 1) don't want people to know, 'cause then they'd see that they were paying $400 for something that a $100 MP3 player could do, or 2) they are counting on people being dumb.
So I did Googled:
http://www.mp3shopping.com/english/creative_nomad_muvo_2.htm
This page has specs for the Muvo 2 4 gig.
It does NOT support WAV, it has no input jack, and the only way to get info on or off is the USB. At $400, I could buy 2x Nomads...
T
yeah go with the JB3. don't mess with that muvo POS. also for all the info on jb3 just search the site. I think after reading the first thread you'll want the jb3
Brian
Quote from: charades on March 29, 2004, 02:51:31 PM
i want to know if it can a) record via the 1/8th out headphone jack...(like if i can put my mic -> preamp -> muvo, and have it record) and b) if it can record at 44.1 kHz/16 bit...
There's no way you can record INTO an OUTPUT jack.