Topic: Anyone know anything about this Fostex FR2 LE (previously FR3 LE)

[eric.B]

Just to follow-up Chucky's questions on one of my biggest FR2LE concerns...

Do you NEED the standby button?  If it was disabled with a cover or something, how would that impact the deck?  Any other ways to screw up a recording with the hold on?

nope.. thats the only way, as long as the top panel lock is engaged..  I have the front panel buttons covered with velcro myself..   I hit record and cover both buttons.   also, the only way you can "monitor/check levels" without actually recording is to hit the standby button.   Although completely covering the standby button would still allow you to use the deck absolutely...

[chucky]

OK, got it. Thanks a million.
Piece of velcro seems like a good fix. Another thing I HATE about the MT- Not being able to monitor levels until your rolling. I think I'm gonna get one of these and get it modded on it's way out to me in Japan.


I'm such a klutz, that even with the hold button engaged I jamb my MT into my bag,
the hold gets caught on something and disengages, just as the record button bumps my battery and shuts down, as I'm zipping my bag and already walking the other direction with my drink in my hand.
I try telling myself that it's a cable, no wait the MT hickups, or was it the battery. Whatever the case I've done it more than once and it's quite likely "user error" or "user error in judgement"

[it-goes-to-eleven]

That mt hold switch sticks out and is so easy to flip.. The r09 switch is much closer to perfect.

[chucky]

Yeah I was going to try to pop that thing out and just use a pin or something to flip it,
but it's not quite that easy.

Pain in the ass, after I set levels I gotta slip the MT
into my bag with the precision of a surgeon or else...

Kinda reminds me of that game "operation" except instead of getting the buzzer going bbbbiizziiiiiittttt!!!!
you get a feeling not unlike that Japanese game show I saw on youtube where if you get the
answer wrong you get whipped in the nuts with one of those whips from the horseraces.

[it-goes-to-eleven]

you get a feeling not unlike that Japanese game show I saw on youtube where if you get the
answer wrong you get whipped in the nuts with one of those whips from the horseraces.

They have the weirdest game shows in Japan. The US is years behind in the game show torture genre.

[F.O.Bean]

that is one thing I love about my 722, EVERYTHING locks except the recording button. and if you hit that it just starts a new seamless track When I get one of these, Im def going to find a way to take button out so its not even there! Thanks for the info Eric!

[willndmb]

first time Ive ever done anything like this, but here goes..

I taped one set of the Codetalkers with the v2 in front of the tcm fr2le (rca>1/4), and the other straight into the tcm fr2le (mic in, phantom)..  I have created two files, both excerpts of two songs, one from each set...   

one file is: tlm170 > v2 > oadeTCMfr2le    and the other is: tlm170>oadeTCMfr2le         but the files listed below are in no particular order.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nx8zut

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7oy5nm
v2

i'm going to say 1 is v2
i like it much much better then 2 too

[George2]

Easiest solution is... never leave a recording device unattended! I'm just amazed... put it in record, toss in bag and walk away, expecting it to be "done" at the end. What do you think you are doing, laundry?

[it-goes-to-eleven]

Easiest solution is... never leave a recording device unattended! I'm just amazed... put it in record, toss in bag and walk away, expecting it to be "done" at the end.

People expect gear to "just work".  It shouldn't be necessary to babysit an electronic device.

[landshark]

Easiest solution is... never leave a recording device unattended! I'm just amazed... put it in record, toss in bag and walk away, expecting it to be "done" at the end. What do you think you are doing, laundry?

Heh, sometimes it sounds like I was doing laundry...<grin>

[chucky]

  laundry!!
That's funny!  

But, I more compare it to fishing.

Actually, I rarely leave my rig unattended. But I often run on stage, or up front in the thick where my gears butted up against the stand, or between my feet, so you can't really set up a table and chair to lay all the gear out, shit gets bumped.
 But if I'm at a mind mannered show, with just a few people or other tapers standing around the gear I'll often go up front and have fun. As freelunch said I just expect the gear to work on it's own.

[intpseeker]

first time Ive ever done anything like this, but here goes..

I taped one set of the Codetalkers with the v2 in front of the tcm fr2le (rca>1/4), and the other straight into the tcm fr2le (mic in, phantom)..  I have created two files, both excerpts of two songs, one from each set...   

one file is: tlm170 > v2 > oadeTCMfr2le    and the other is: tlm170>oadeTCMfr2le         but the files listed below are in no particular order.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nx8zut

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7oy5nm
v2

i'm going to say 1 is v2
i like it much much better then 2 too

I like the longer one, but which ever is which, they are both pretty nice recordings.

One of the benefits of starting to experience the effects of prolonged high volume exposure is that I'm way less able to hear differences. As a consequence, I wouldn't need to run the V2 in front of the fr2-le. 

[Colin Liston]

Number 1 sounds much fulller to me.

[JiB97]

Here are some pics of the FR-2LE situated in my gear bag: http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,94949.0.html

[darktrain]

I have a FR-2LE on the way and i was wondering if or what is the best way to run a patch from it to another recorder while taping/recording(ihp120, i was thinking it had a large storage area if a compact flash puked)i am new to open taping and full size mics and i was skimming the manual but nothing popped out.