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Hi everyone,
can someone on here recommend some Recorders for recording my own Music? I am using Hardware synths and Keyboards and such. I am looking for a Hardware solution, I know there are Software Solutions, bzt want to have Hardware Equipment for recording as well. So, are there Recorders you can recommend wich are good to use for a blind Person?
Hi.
Well it depends on the money you want and accessibility.
All the olympus recorders the dm and ls series should be accessible for the most part.
However being the top dog you will be paying for them.
Atguys.com has the microspeak which may help you some to.
If you want to be more mainstream, I have used soni px, and ux recorders.
There are beeps for a lot of functions, back a track, forward a track, end of recording folder, start of recording folder, the play button is dotted and marked.
On my px 335 the play button has a dot the recording button has a dimple in it and it is to that point accessible.
But thats where it stops.
They do not speak, you can't do anything in the menus.
To clear the recorders fully you need to reformat each time after use.
You can't switch folder and your filenames will always be z0000000000000 then a file number 000000-0-00000001 to 000000000099.mp3
Then you can't record anymore.
You will have to manually rename files.
The modern software to handle the recordings is not accessible at all!
Also if you do have a mixing board and things you are better suited to recording via a computer to be honest unless its a field recording.
You can try if you want to use your phone to record your stuff but again its not going to sound that flash.
Still artests like tayler swift have recorded demos of tracks either outputting via laptop speakers and or a phone, so it can be done.
Its probably better to link up via a workstation or computer and record your synths or via a dedicated machine.
But it depends what you want to use to record.
Is this for yourself, for release or just for the sheer heck of doing so.
If its just for the reason because its there and well why the fuck not, if you can get them, I'd start with a casette recorder and casettes.
This was how I started recording back in the early 90s.
Now, carrying round a walkman in extreme heat on the rist with the fact even on 60 minute tapes liable to jam at the drop of the hat with batteries that could drop out due to loose covers were not ideal but one of my first australian trips was recorded via an analog tape deck.
My first machine in 2000 was a soni icd sx 35.
The software was accessible but didn't work on anything over xp.
The sx used its own format, and everything was fine till the 45 sx, the sx was fully accessible with switches, rockers, buttons and toggles.
Even the delete button was recessed.
Its downside was it recorded poor audio with really bad sounding digital wma type signals.
It had 32mb memmory and in extreme heat it was liable to overheat to the point it didn't record much at all!
It used a special format needing decoding.
After 2 australian trips one in 2004 and the other in 12005 the unit overheated, and basically refused to record or work at all eventually ending with the batteries melting in the case.
By then though I was seriously thinking of replacing it.
My next recorder was the ux 60, a flatter version of the sx with toggles, a control stick, and widely spaced microphones.
It did not overheat in extreme heat, however even though it was 500mb of space, the unit had no usb cord and needed to be directly plugged into the pc or an extention.
Recording was ok.
The latest unit I got in 2014 is the px335, I got it so I didn't have to connect it to the computer all the time.
It has served me well enough.
My next recorder if I ever upgrade will probably be a microspeak mainly because of price.
After that, if it warrents it an olympus dm series or maybe zoon not sure.
Thank you first for the detailed reply. That gives me orientation on wich is usable for good Music recording, I wasn't sure if the Olympus Recorders for example are good enough for that. I have Mixers here and surely, I could use an Computer as well but to be honest, I want the possibility of a seperate Hardware Recorder because if I make Music, i simply like to have no Computer in front of me all the time. I use it all day, so I realy like the Feeling of having other devices to make and record Music. Oh, cassettes I could use maybe, but no, i Thing sticks and SD-Cards do fit better in my workflow. As I am a Hobbyist, I'd like to record for myself at first, but with a good Quality so it can be shown if needed. But I think the Recorders you menssion should be able to record in a professional Quality as well.
Are there maybe even usable multitrack Recorders wich record to a USB drive or SD-Card? Like I said, i realy Need to get away from the PC sometimes and the Music is one of the Hobbies where I don't want to use the PC where ever i can.
Check out any of the Tascam DP series recorders. My first recordings were done with one of those, and used it for nearly ten years until I could afford a PC to record with. I still use one now, the DP32SD, in combination with my PC. The latency is too bad to record well with this PC, so I use the Tascam for tracking, then mix and edit with Reaper. You'll have to memorize menus and buttons though.
The newer models record WAV files to SD cards, so it works out really well. Unfortunately the newer models also skimp on the physical controls, but it's still very usable for just plain tracking. For example, my first model had a physical channel strip with pan, reverb, high/mid/low EQ, and send/return controls for each channel, but my current one has a single channel strip that is reassigned to whichever track you want to edit. It's easy enough, since each channel still has a select button above its fader, so all you have to do is press one of those to assign the controls. Another example of how intuitive it is: to assign an input to a channel, you press and hold the select button for one of the inputs, then while still holding, press the select button of the channel you want to assign to.
I've also used the Zoom recorders. The handheld H recorders are good for recording a single simultaneous take. In my opinion, overdubs are too much trouble with those, considering you could get one of the smaller Tascams at that same pricepoint that's much easier to use. The Zoom R series are also difficult to use, since the menus wrap, so you have to remember where in the menu you were when you last used it. With the Tascams, you can spam the cursor keys to get to the top of the menu if you lose your place, and the cursor will stop at the top of the menu, while the Zooms cycle back down to the end of the menu.
Hi.
speaking of recorders, does anyone have a menutree for zoom h6? I've been looking for it for a while.
I throw in the menu tree question for the zoom h 2 n.
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