interesting places, audio-wise
Message: 2.
Subject: To build into a box for unattended recording (so if it did get nicked
the cost of the loss is minimized)
Initial impressions of sound quality - internal mics and using external
mics - are good, but I don't have enough experience with different
recorders to properly comment on that.
Initial impression of the menu design is fairly good. There are
physical switches for some important things - record format, auto-level
on/off, lo-cut. Once these are set up you just press the single big red
button and it starts recording - not to bad for the intended user, I guess.
Just now I dug it out, found that the battery had gone flat. Put in a
new battery, I had to input the date (US format) and could not see how
to go back if a mitsake was made (but deliberately working without the
manual, so it might be possible). Once a date was in, ready to go.
Here are the problems:
For 1, the device is _extremely_ sensitive to handling noise, and really
has to be mounted and not hand-held, unless you are very careful indeed.
For 2, there is not, or at least I have not yet found, a proper way to
remotely control the device, and it looks like it will be necessary to
open the case and put a switch across whatever is under the big red
button to do that. Not impossible, but a bit messy, and if the real
switch under the button is something built onto the circuit board it
might be extremely difficult to add a physical switch in parallel.
So, overall, for my intended uses, it does not really work. I think
spending maybe twice as much and having something that is both easy to
use hand-held, and has proper support for remote control, is likely to
be better. It is still fine for what is probably the intended usage -
stick it on a small table-top tripod or similar to use for recording
live music - should be fine for that. Or even as a recorder with remote
mics for nature recording, so long as it is mounted properly when in use.
Richard
On 11/02/2011 14:54, Klas Strandberg wrote:
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> Any experience of this low cost machine? Handling? Menus?
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> Klas
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> Telinga Microphones, Botarbo,
> S-748 96 Tobo, Sweden.
> Phone & fax int + 295 310 01
> email: <telinga%40bahnhof.se>
> website: www.telinga.com
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