Dan Dugan wrote:
> ... an Edirol R-1 ... The
> flash card door feels like it will break. The ejector button doesn't
> eject the card far enough to grab it easily.
Yes, very cheap plastic housing; mine scratched up just looking
at it. Good thing that with the USB interface, there's not a lot
of reason to remove the card, unless you've got multiple cards
and need to swap during a session.
> The internal mics sound good, no motor to pick up.
They sound good until the internal preamp starts to clip,
which occurs at moderate SPLs, and there's no pad switch.
So the concert tapers will hate this machine.
> The meter is pretty bad. ... There's no calibration on the
> little side-wheel record level control.
The metering is abissmal; it's way slow, it's mono, and has no peak hold.
> When you pause, the take number/file name doesn't change.
Nor does it split on the fly when you push record. If you set it
to split automatically it splits on a uselessly high and short
definition of silence, so you get lots of tiny files.
> ... Clearly the designers have no experience with field recording.
Seems like they had to hit a price point and nominally work.
> We compared ... the R-1 to ... my Sharp MD-MT90 ...
> ... The Edirol has wider bandwidth at both
> the top and the bottom.
Well, at least that's good news. I've got to get a better
set of battery powered mics/external preamp w/meters before
I can really do any useful field recording with mine... my
current best small rig needs A/C, so I may as well bring
a real recorder along. But the R-1 *is* a lot easier to
carry than the Masterlink in the road case.
-- Mike
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