I used to have a really nice Sony WM-D6C stereo cassette recorder. It went on several choir trips abroad and made good recordings. But I don't seem to have it any more. Kiran borrowed it, and it somehow broke in his care (never mind that it survived travelling Europe and the Pacific Rim with me), and he got it repaired, and then he broke it again, and it never came home. (Unrelated, but Sony's not getting my business again anytime soon after that root-kit stunt they pulled with their CDs.)
The recordings I've done lately have been into my laptop with a USB audio digitizer. I think they could have been better with better microphones, but the results weren't bad.
We bought MP3 players a little while back that have line-in recording, and I was hoping those would be great for concerts and field recording, but the results there were disappointing. A different brand might do better. (And again, maybe it's getting things matched up with the appropriate mics.)
I think you might want to look for something that records MP3 or WAV files to an internal disk or flash memory, but I don't have any suggestions about what's good. These will require external mics, and I'm not particularly delighted with the relatively inexpensive ones I've tried so far (2 kinds from Radio Shack, probably 15-20 yrs old now, and a 3rd from Audio Technica. All are stereo mics, which may just be a bad idea in the first place.), but you're welcome to try them out.
I used to have a really nice Sony WM-D6C stereo cassette recorder. It went on several choir trips abroad and made good recordings. But I don't seem to have it any more. Kiran borrowed it, and it somehow broke in his care (never mind that it survived travelling Europe and the Pacific Rim with me), and he got it repaired, and then he broke it again, and it never came home. (Unrelated, but Sony's not getting my business again anytime soon after that root-kit stunt they pulled with their CDs.)
The recordings I've done lately have been into my laptop with a USB audio digitizer. I think they could have been better with better microphones, but the results weren't bad.
We bought MP3 players a little while back that have line-in recording, and I was hoping those would be great for concerts and field recording, but the results there were disappointing. A different brand might do better. (And again, maybe it's getting things matched up with the appropriate mics.)
I think you might want to look for something that records MP3 or WAV files to an internal disk or flash memory, but I don't have any suggestions about what's good. These will require external mics, and I'm not particularly delighted with the relatively inexpensive ones I've tried so far (2 kinds from Radio Shack, probably 15-20 yrs old now, and a 3rd from Audio Technica. All are stereo mics, which may just be a bad idea in the first place.), but you're welcome to try them out.
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We might be interested in borrowing the mics. I'll keep you posted.
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