Digital Audio Recorders

Re: Digital Audio Recorders

I've never really played with those recorders but you should consider getting something that will record at higher rez 24/96 maybe? Both these mixers limits you to 16/44. Plus I think its alittle too pricey for me. The audio on your miniDV records higher quality. Minidv records at 16/48khz. What will be your main purpose for this?
 
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Looks like fun, but seems to be geared more towards mini music studio. There are a lot of things to consider like dynamic range, signal to noise ratio, hamonic distortion and the like. I think spider has the right idea in using the camera. maybe take the money and invest in good mic's etc.
 
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I would think this little Fostex would be a good little recorder. It runs off of batteries and records up to 44.1 Khz. That's CD quality & it's good enough. The computer can uprez w/ dither to 48k, you won't hear the difference. I've ran listening tests on studio montiors and 98% of the listeners can't tell the difference between 44 & 48, even 96 is difficult for most.

The fostex has decent AD converters, I bet they're better than many cameras, S/N I don't believe is an issue. I bet it specs out well, this is digital so once it passes through the AD conversion it's all binary. The old analog stuff is full of wow & fullter, S/N ratios, .... this new stuff is much much better, it's binary. The mic pre amps aren't great but they'll work just fine.

Yes the system is geared toward mini studio.... that's good. Another option are the minidisc recorders, at $300.00, they record 44.1 now. I just recorded a jam session last night, laid it on my keyboard & used a crummy little stereo mic & it worked great, even the new auto level controls are finally working the way they were promised to years ago. The problem with minidisc is that they're are too small (pack of smokes) they need adapters for XLR, etc... and the buttons are hard to see & hit ... A biggerbox is better.
 
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Interesting responses and glad to see that this is a topic open to some opinion. To answer the questions asked of me, my use of these would probably be for sound recording on set and the use of a smaller recorder when picture recording isn't needed such as for gathering sound FX. After weighing the option though, it sounds like I'm better off just running into my DVX with maybe a stop at a mixer first to get the use of better pre-amps. Thanks for all the help

-Harry
 
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The DVX mic pre amps are good, especially for inexpensive DV cameras. I've gotten good clean audio.

The best sound approach is dual system. For a dual system approach the recorder you mentioned could work. It would entail a sound man & a boom op as it is in normal production.

It's best for audio to go directly into the AD converters ASAP. Too much patching invites noise.
 
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