Thanks a lot!
Two good reasons for buying such a recorder!
I am never going to use the internal mic's, so handling noise is no problem=
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But I presume the mic input provides pip, or has Zoom got mad? One
never knows...
How is the manual recording level control? Wheel or pressing a
button? Is it quick and easy to set?
Klas
At 16:27 2011-02-11, you wrote:
>I bought one of these with these two uses in mind:
>
>1. Something to give to friends who are expecting to be visiting
>interesting places, audio-wise
>2. 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:
> >
> > Any experience of this low cost machine? Handling? Menus?
> >
> > Klas
> >
> > 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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