The Zoom and models like it from other manufacturers are designed for
recording musical groups and have a lot of digital menu functions and
capabilities that will overwhelm your client's and will cost you a lot
more than you need for good quality voice recordings. Overkill which
will cause you nothing but problems and unnecessary expense.
Olympus has many models of recorders from simple to complex that do all
of things you want.
The cheaper models don't have removable memory and unless you have short
recordings ... or a way to FTP larger files ... or mail CDs ... I would
recommend getting a digital dictation recorder with removable SD memory
because I doubt you want to be shipping the recorder back and forth or
have them trying to download, annotate and FTP files to you
And I can't imagine you will get by without editing the clips in some
way or another. Beginnings and endings are usually sloppy with
extraneous sounds for one thing as it is unlikely your group will be
exercising recording studio start and stop protocols with their subjects.
Me thinks this project has more tech to it than you are thinking.
I used to equip and support linguistics researchers for field work ...
trust me that you need to do your homework on this project and take into
account your partners capabilities and everything that occurs between
their pressing the record button and your finished output.
Take a look at the recorders at:
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_voicerecorders.asp
and this handy kit.
Olympus AS-2400 Digital Transcription Kit AS2400
http://www.aaaprice.com/as2400.html
db
mike wrote:
I can't recommend a recorder, but a feature you may want to find is one that
allows the file to be broken into segments with the push of a button while
you are recording. My old sony would allow this.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote:
We have a group that will be doing oral histories, & then giving us the
files. We'd prefer this stay all-digital, so we don't have to do the
conversion from cassette tape. Can someone recommend a device? Also, the
ones I've been looking at can save files as both WAV & MP3. Would there
be a preferred format? These will be voice recordings only, no music.
tia.
Most important in this situation is to keep it simple. I typically
recommend the Zoom H2 ($190). Just press the red button. It saves in MP3
and WAV.
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