Topic: Edirol RO9: What are your experiences recording with it?

[SoulBoogieAlex]

I can make a pretty sweet deal for the Edirol with a local audio shop.

What are your experiences recording with it?

[bhakti]

for years i recorded with an MD and never tried anything else [so can't speak for DAT, MT, Marrantz, JB3, etc.], but my new Edirol is absolutely, 100% perfect... i love the unit and look forward to recording more shows with it... i say, go and pick it up... you won't regret it...

[jobseek2001]

Works well. No known (big) bugs.
Tape over the LED.
Small buttons on the side.

[Per]

Having used md deck, d100/m1 dat deck and now using an r-09 I'd say I'm happy with it. Convenient size and nice quality. It feels like an expensive piece of plastic if that makes sense. I hate the "hold" button which is small and hard to slide over.

Also, adjusting the levels during recording were much easier on a dat (the rec level wheel), but is harder on this. In the dark that is. No big trouble adjusting, but I have many times pressed the + instead of - and the other way around when adjusting the levels in the dark.

The display is pretty easy to read and there is a clip light that might come in handy.

[jobseek2001]

FWIW: I never adjust levels during a show, nor glance at the unit.
Just set, start sometime and forget until I am out again.

Starting the deck even in somewhat 'security' situations is doable, including the `hold thing which is indeed a bit small`or at least hard to handle.

[SoulBoogieAlex]

Thanks for the responses, very helpfull. I'll let you all know when I bought it and how I like it 

[dorrcoq]

I love mine.  The only problems I've had are user errors.

[Belexes]

No issues with mine. Flawless performance.

[calvinroots]

I'm lovin' it

[digifish_music]

What are your experiences recording with it?

I use one as a field-recorder with a Sound Devices MixPre...never had any problems...

recordings here





digifish

[Mass. Wine Guy]

The Edirol definitely has a hiss to its internal mike recordings.

[digifish_music]

The Edirol definitely has a hiss to its internal mike recordings.

Indeed. They are useless on anything but close-miced or quite loud sound sources. Quite strange really, when I connect $3 worth of Panasonic WM61-A capsules to the mic-in there is dramatically less hiss...why they didn't use a set of these internally is anybodies guess?

digifish

[JD]

Never had any problems with mine, till the Line in jack broke. 

Not sure if this is still a problem on them or not, but it's happened to a lot of people here.

Still debating what to replace it with. 

[SoulBoogieAlex]

http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,98074.0.html

I started a thread on the concert review forum to share more experiences with the Edirol. I must admit that I barely hear a hiss from the internals.

I taped Steve Earl last night, came out pretty well 

[Gutbucket]

The Edirol definitely has a hiss to its internal mike recordings.

Indeed. They are useless on anything but close-miced or quite loud sound sources. Quite strange really, when I connect $3 worth of Panasonic WM61-A capsules to the mic-in there is dramatically less hiss...why they didn't use a set of these internally is anybodies guess?

digifish

Chris Church's mod that replaces the stock internal mics with his omnis or cardioids taps into the 'mic-in' path and does not use the existing internal mic board leads.  I asked him why (since that bypasses the existing switching and requires him to also add a switch to select between the replacement internals or the jack) and he stated that the existing internal mic path is noisier than the 'mic-in' jack path (not sure if it has additional gain applied or not).


I love mine.  In fact, I bought a second one.