Thank you! That was an important info!
It might be that the Tascam needs a external battery pack, with an
extra rechargeable cell.
But the Fostex FR2 has a menu setting about battery type. Perhaps HD
P2 also, if you have a closer look?
Klas.
At 10:43 2007-04-17, you wrote:
>There was talk recently about the Fostex FR2LE looking good but the
>crunch being how the preamps performed. I'm wondering if anyone has
>information on this yet as I'm in the market for a decent recording device.
>
>I recently worked intensively with the Tascam HD P2 and was very
>irate at the fact that it wouldn't work at all with rechargeables. I
>tried two types, sourced in the UK at Maplins; Uniross NiMH AAs and
>Maplin's own 'high performance' brand. Prices seem to confirm that
>these are good quality and they work in other devices. The Tascam
>worked fine with Duracells. Maybe somebody can tell me if it's
>because the rechargeables are rated at 1.2 volts.
>
>I've no doubt that the Tascam will work with some rechargeables but
>as I found out to my cost, not with all. Also some people have said
>not to trust rechargeables which makes field work very expensive in
>buying Duracells. So I won't be buying the unit on the basis that
>the manual doesn't say 'might not work with some rechargeables'.
>
>At the nature end of things we got some very interesting recordings
>of dozens of black kites chasing swifts and pigeons in a very
>strange evening death ritual on the rooftops of old Seville during Holy Week.
>
>james
>www.wyness.org
>www.khora.org.uk
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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