Three recording products were in the news this week.
The first is the Edirol R-09. Delivery to dealers started 25 May.
This cell-phone size recorder digitizes at 24/48 and records to Secure
Digital memory cards. Interest in this recorder is high, since its
predecessor, the R-1, is well regarded. Street price in USA is about
$400, with supplies limited.
http://www.edirol.net/products/en/R-09/
Second is a new "pro" version of the Edirol R-4 four channel recorder.
The R-4 Pro records at 24/96 and saves data to an 80GB disc (up from
40GB). The unit includes SMPTE time code (master or slave), a power
adapter for Anton-Bauer external batteries, and a nifty black finish.
List price is announced to be $2400. I expect a street price of $2000,
maybe as low as $1800. (Standard R-4 $1600 list, $1200 street.)
Delivery will begin in September.
http://www.edirol.com/press/html/2006/052306_r4pro.html
Third, AEQ, a Spanish supplier to the radio industry, announced the
availability of the PAW 120 recorder. The $800 PAW 120 is similar in
size and features to the $1000 Nagra ARES-M. In other words, the PAW
120 is a cell-phone size recorder with 1GB internal flash memory and
built-in mic.
Digitizing mono at 16/48, the PAW 120's memory will fill in 3 hours.
It takes about 30 minutes to copy the contents of the memory to an
external device.
I saw the PAW 120 at the recent NAB conference. Its case is sturdy
aluminum, and display is a large OLED. Control buttons were reasonably
large and easy to locate. Power is via two AA cells.
The PAW 120 has several pro features, including pre-roll buffer,
configurable high pass filter, and a cable for a mono XLR mic. The
machine can store multiple configurations for mic type, analog and
digital boost, plug-in power, and other settings. Use of a
pre-defined template will reduce the chance of errors in the field.
The company brochure claims a signal to noise ratio for the mic input
of better than 122dB, A-weighted. That's good for a sub-$1000
recorder. For more information, see
http://www.aeqbroadcast.com/pr_paw120.htm
--oryoki
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
------------------------------------------------------------------------
|