Can You Recommend A Cheapish Digital Recorder?

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Ideally under £100, with internal microphone, plugs directly into PC via USB, can save files as MP3.

It's for use to record band rehearsals/solo ideas etc.

Thanks!

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I've got an Olympus thing that I paid about $120 CDN for. It has USB, internal mic (and a plug-in for external mic--which you might want), and it's a piece of cake to transfer the files from whatever stupid filetype it saves as to MP3.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

the recorder in question:
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/product.asp?product=1176

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

looks like I got HOSED on the price!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

er, actually, this is the one I got. Still got hosed, but not as badly.
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/product.asp?product=1178

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

MobiBlu has a new thing with a rechargeable battery that lasts 6 full days. I own it. It's pretty great. It's a Flash USB drive/mp3 player/fm radio/recorder. Kicks the shit out of an iPod mini as far as I can tell. No moving parts! And the radio-record actually works well! And the voice record works well, too. I use it for recording acoustic guitar ditties and then I just USB them to my computer. I am not sure how it would work for BAND REHEARSALS, though. That's probably too loud for the little condenser mic. I have no idea, though.

― John W. Smoke, Jr. (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

This is what I'm talking about:
http://www.mobibluamerica.com/b153.html
$120 for 2 Gigs and all those features.

― John W. Smoke, Jr. (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

are voice recorders going to be ok for this? the quality will be rather low. that said, i don't think you'll get a much higher spec for the money.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what a voice recorder is, exactly, but I have a mini cassette Sony recorder, which I would call a voice recorder, and the microphone sucks on it. The little condenser mic on my MobiBlu is much more advanced. It was meant for taping college lectures, I guess, and is supposed to work very well for that.

― John W. Smoke, Jr. (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

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