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OK, Thanks Bill. Yes, the Laptop has Windows 7. I will look for the Tascam
DR07. Does the Turtle Beach sound card work as an "outboard" device or does it
need to be installed internally?
Marc DeLorenzo
South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?228-DeLorenzo-s-Classic-DX
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From: 'Bill Nollman' [email protected] [CapeDX] <[email protected]>
To: CapeDX <[email protected]>
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Sent: Fri, Sep 2, 2016 4:11 pm
Subject: RE: [CapeDX] Mobile DX Recording Question
Mark, audio recording with a laptop or digital device. One of my favorite
topics.
Option #1 - I’ll assume the laptop is Windows 7 or lower – in which case I have
a Turtle Beach USB sound card (looks like a small pager, no drivers for Win8 or
10) that I’ve been debating putting on eBay. Audio input is excellent and has a
built in microphone and switch on the device if you want to add comments as you
record.
Option #2 – digital recorder. Tons of options really expensive right down to
cheap. I prefer somewhere in the middle. My favorite digital recorder is the
Tascam DR07 (the older DR07 not the DR07 mkII). Recording quality is amazing
and with a 2GB card you can record for hours at 256kbps MP3. With a 16GB card
you probably can’t fill it up ever. Quality is excellent, controls are
excellent. The built in mic is good as well although a bit trickier to switch
over to than the USB “card”.
Option #3 – you can probably find dirt cheap mp3 recorders from Hong Kong for
under $10. IMHO you get what you pay for in this category. But for some peoples
ears it’s more than perfect.
Bill Nollman
Farmington, CT.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2016 3:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [CapeDX] Mobile DX Recording Question
Mark Connelly has built for me an amplified whip antenna with magnetic base
that I can mount on the roof of my car for oceanfront DXpeditions. We tested
it in an RFI quiet zone - the local cemetery! - and it works fine with my JRC
NRD-525 receiver.
The problem is recording DX using Total Recorder on my laptop. The laptop
does not have an audio "line in" jack so I have been trying to use the
microphone jack. It records but the audio playback is quite distorted. On the
laptop I get the following message from Total Recorder:
"The level of the source signal is too high. Possibly the characteristics of
the sound source do not match those of the soundboard input (e.g. instead of
soundboard's line-in connector, the microphone-in connector is used.)
Recording is possible, but the quality of the recorded sound may be low."
Right. I noticed that. The question is what is the solution to the problem.
20 years ago I had an "attenuating cable" from Radio Shack that might solve
the problem. But, like a dummy, I through it away thinking that, "I'll never
have any use for that." I doubt that RS still carries this product.
So, is there a Total Recorder setting that might work? Or, should I scrap
Total Recorder and buy a portable digital recorder? If so, which one? A
digital recorder (with a line-in jack of course) would be better in that it is
smaller and would take up less space in the car.
Any help appreciated.
Marc DeLorenzo
South Dennis, MA
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