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Subject: Re: four-channel digital recording
From: "Marinos Koutsomichalis" marinoskouts=
omichalis
Date: Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:35 am ((PDT))

there are a lot of products available ... :-)

check edirol R-4, edirol R-44 , sound devices 744T , etc

On 29 =CE=9F=CE=BA=CF=84 2009, at 2:38 =CF=80.=CE=BC., umashankar wrote:

> well, if you are happy with 16 bit, the zoom h2 is very nice, but
> needs to be modified for external inputs. it is a four channel
> device, self contained recorder to flash it has a usb interface, but
> far simpler to take the flash card out and insert it into your
> laptop or a card reader.
>
> zoom has a new eight channel recorder with four xlr microphone
> inputs, but i have no experience with it.
>
> umashankar
>  i have published my poems. you can read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.c=
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>
> ________________________________
> From: Robb N <>
> To: 
> Sent: Thu, October 29, 2009 5:58:57 AM
> Subject: [Nature Recordists] four-channel digital recording
>
> Hello,
>
> I am asked fairly often for help referring a product that will
> record four channels simultaneously.  Mic preamps would be nice and
> a USB or Firewire interface to a laptop would be good.  I've never
> found such a device outside of a PCI device--which isn't all that
> convenient for portable applications.  Does anybody know of anything?
>
> Short of that, is there free or low-cost software available that
> will record two stereo USB sound interfaces at the same time?  This
> is less desirable, I think, because I would expect relative timing
> errors to occur in the serial data paths of the two cards.  Is there
> a way to compensate for this?
>
> My application would most often be for setting up hydrophone arrays
> to monitor the location of cetaceans while recording their
> vocalizations.  We seem to have so many great options for digital
> recording these days that is seems like a four-channel budget system
> could be made without moving into DAQ-oriented devices.
>
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind regards, Robb
>
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>
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> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause
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