Check out the Roland R1, a portable digital recorder. It records up to
48k and 24 bit (better than CD) and runs about $400. Not too bad.
Records to compact flash cards, a 2 gig card would hold quit a bit
(three hours at CD quality?)
On Apr 1, 2005, at 2:33 PM, wrote:
> I live in a rural area 50mi SW of Portlan,OR.=A0=A0 I recorded the frog
> chorus
> on our property by stick a mic out the window.=A0 It came out great,
> but its
> only mono since I'm using a AKG C1000 mic running into my home music
> studio
> mixer.
>
> I'd like record nature and found sounds as backing for some songs I'm
> creating.=A0 But this would be an occasional need, so I don't want to
> spend a
> lot.=A0 I've thought about getting a stereo mic which would work in my
> room
> (I could get the frog chrous in stereo from there).=A0 But I lack a
> portable
> recording capability.=A0
>
> I keep hoping for a price breakthrough in a portable recorder that
> would
> provide CD-level quality.=A0 I've thought about an iRiver H-series, but=
> I
> think they only record in mp3.=A0 I don't mind getting a used one to
> save $.
>
> any suggestions?=A0
> -Qua
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