mmg_fan wrote:
> Anyone care to recommend a really good field recorder?
> 
> Options I'm looking for include:
> 
> Affordability
> Sound Quality
> battery Life
> phantom power
> the ability to record in lossless as well as a variety of lossy formats

How many channels?

What's your definition of "really good" and "affordable"?
They are incompatible to my mind.

I'd suggest you lose the last requirement. Just record raw, and compress
later. Or look at obsolete MD (minidisk) systems, which used a decent
lossy format.

The least expensive fairly high quality approach for Stereo
is to use a Laptop with decent sound card/PCMCIA But that isn't going to
provide phantom power. Next up would be a USB or firewire input device,
many of these have XLR connections and phantom power, but they start at
about $500.

Do you really need phantom power? That limits your choices a lot.

How portable do you want?


-- 
Pat Farrell         PRC recording studio
http://www.pfarrell.com/PRC

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