That was a great comparison of recording equipment, thanks Oryoki!
Syd Curtis wrote:
> A throw-away comment from the depths of my ignorance of all
> these technical comparisons.
> A 2 gig card full of field recordings is not only a hell of a lot of file=
s
> for editing. It is also a hell of a lot of "eggs in one basket"!
Lang replied:
>> If/when I switch to a flash card recorder, I think I would back up as of=
ten
>> as possible on to a laptop hard drive, long before I filled the whole fl=
ash
>> card (in other words, back up after each recording session, even if it i=
s a
>> short session). That sounds more reasonable than filling a 2 gig card be=
fore
>> doing any backups.
>>
>> One can also buy special portable hard drives with flash card readers
>> built-in.
Two questions come to mind for me, for recorders such as the Fostex FR-2
that use Compact Flash cards and mini hard-drives as the recording medium.
1. On long field trips lasting weeks or months, it would seem to be
essential to buy and carry a laptop computer for downloading sound. Which
of course puts even more eggs into one basket, if somethings goes wrong wit=
h
the laptop.
2. With recordings made in hi resolution e.g. 24 bits and 192 kHz, how do
you actually save that high resolution? Excuse my ignorance here too, but
does DVD record at higher resolution than CD? And is the general idea that
you would buy a laptop that can burn DVDs? Otherwise how do you actually
share and store sounds made at high resolution?
Vicki Powys
Australia
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