>One of my clients brought in an Edirol R-1 for me to examine today.
>We learned some things about it.
>
>It uses the same compact flash cards that my Canon camera uses. The
>flash card door feels like it will break. The ejector button doesn't
>eject the card far enough to grab it easily.
>
>Record time is two hours with alkalines, making it a power hog
>compared to MDs. They warn not to feed it dirty power, like the
>output of an inverter.
>
>The internal mics sound good, no motor to pick up.
>
>The meter is pretty bad. It seems to have a delay before the reading.
>I put a strip of white tape below it and marked some levels. -5 dBFS
>is about the middle! -10 1/4 from the left, -22 the first segment.
>
>There's no calibration on the little side-wheel record level control.
>I suggested putting dots of different colors of nail polish on it so
>a setting could be repeated.
>
>When you pause, the take number/file name doesn't change.
>
>When "input monitor" is set to on, you can hear what you're preparing
>to record. But if you leave it on, the mics will mix with the
>playback. Clearly the designers have no experience with field
>recording.
>
>We compared one channel of the R-1 to one channel of my Sharp MD-MT90
>with a pair of 183 mics next to each other. We looked at the
>level-matched outputs of record-pause (no actual recording) on a
>Spectrafoo spectrum analyzer. The Edirol has wider bandwidth at both
>the top and the bottom. About 6 dB higher response at 16Hz, about 3dB
>higher at the top end. They matched between 60 Hz and around 8 KHz.
>The noise levels seemed to be about the same.
>
>-Dan Dugan
>
Thanks Dan. So one has to switch off "input monitoring" to playback
something in the field and then turn it back on when starting to
record? Did you happen to notice whether there's a significant
difference in the mic pre gain? Rob D.
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