KVR Audio

Peter Martin · Post by **Peter Martin** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 4:08 pm

Any one have a recomendation or two of a high quality recording device similar in size to DAT or MiniDisc?
I'm looking for something thats as lossless as possible, and something that could be used everyday if I wanted to. USB2 or Firewire capable for easy transfer from the device to computer.

If anyone owns something in this catagory let me know! In the market for one of these in the next couple of weeks.

Any help would be appreciated.
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-I think I already posted this in the effects section. Sorry to the mods, if they need to, please remove the other post from the other forum.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 4:15 pm

Sound On Sound just reviewed M-Audio's Microtrack, and seemed to find it quite good. 24/96 recording to CompactFlash.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:26 pm

whyterabbyt wrote:Sound On Sound just reviewed M-Audio's Microtrack, and seemed to find it quite good. 24/96 recording to CompactFlash.

Yep. That's what I have. It has a sensitive input, really easy to overdrive, so can take a minute or so to set levels sometimes.

Newbie Brad · Post by **Newbie Brad** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:45 pm

Mini disk sounds pretty good.

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 6:57 pm

Newbie Brad wrote:Mini disk sounds pretty good.

Yeah I use a Hi-MD the RH910. 1 gig discs, records in PCM Wave with a mic input. I bought it before Microtrack came out, if I were buying something today I would've gone Microtrack but I love using my MD for listening to music too. It's only USB1 but it doesn't really bother me too much.

Borogove · Post by **Borogove** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:23 pm

Newbie Brad wrote:Mini disk sounds pretty good.

Lossy compression, though, and on my minidisc recorder (Sony MZ-N707), the drive mechanism is ridiculously loud. Also, no digital outs on the consumer models. Still not a bad option for recording on the cheap.

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:27 pm

Borogove wrote:
Newbie Brad wrote:Mini disk sounds pretty good.
Lossy compression, though, and on my minidisc recorder (Sony MZ-N707), the drive mechanism is ridiculously loud. Also, no digital outs on the consumer models. Still not a bad option for recording on the cheap.

No yours is lossy, that's a NetMD model from four years ago. USB qualifies as a digital out I think?

In general it's a great platform to get a good recorder for cheap. I think the Hi-MDs are about half the price of a microtrack or the new edirol R-09

ugo · Post by **ugo** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:32 pm

the sony PCM-D1 looks rather cool, but its damn expensive.

-ugo

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:38 pm

ugo wrote:the sony PCM-D1 looks rather cool, but its damn expensive.

-ugo

Yeah that was a very interesting move of Sony

Peter Martin · Post by **Peter Martin** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:38 pm

Thanks for all of the replies guys.
The PCM-D1 might just be the way to go, this looks like something that would be around for a couple of years. I'm not the biggest fan of the M-audio line of products. With the poor knob design on the O8, faulty power suppies, and lack luster performance with the 1010 over the smaller cards I'd rather stay away from M-audio all together.

Any more suggestions?

c_huelsbeck · Post by **c_huelsbeck** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:42 pm

The R-09 from Edirol looks most promissing in terms of price / size / feature ratio:

http://www.edirol.net/products/en/R-09/

Also, if you want to go really pro, look at this one:

http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=2656

deaf dunderkwac · Post by **deaf dunderkwac** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:13 pm

c_huelsbeck wrote:The R-09 from Edirol looks most promissing in terms of price / size / feature ratio:

http://www.edirol.net/products/en/R-09/

Also, if you want to go really pro, look at this one:

http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=2656

If you have the money, there are even more 'professional'(expensive) devices available for location sound recording for film and television.

I'm to be shown the Edirol this month, but the only solid-state recording device I wouldn't recommend is the one made by Marantz (yet, because things change)

But I do highly recommend purchasing any device that has no mechanical contraptions, as these are prone to failure.

I'm a fan of recording on compact flash that can be immediately plugged into the computer for use.

Laptops are a little to noisey for anything other then voice recording, imho

c_huelsbeck · Post by **c_huelsbeck** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:18 pm

Yeah, if you really have money to blow, try this company:

http://www.nagraaudio.com/

deaf dunderkwac · Post by **deaf dunderkwac** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:02 pm

c_huelsbeck wrote:Yeah, if you really have money to blow, try this company:

http://www.nagraaudio.com/

It's hard to go wrong with devices from this company! I have nagra-4 mono tape recorders that, after almost 30 years, still operate flawlessly (with continued maintanance, of course) Zevon is another incredible expensive, yet utterly reliable field recorder.

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:05 pm

Rumour has it that someone once dropped a Nagra in the ocean and it still worked fine afterwards.

Here's another high end company but I dont think they have anything pocket sized. http://www.sounddevices.com/

Need help in finding a lossless 'pocket' sampler...