Sony Walkman Cassette Recorder

I can only assume you want the cassette recorder because your budget is extremely low. A 20 dollar cassette recorder, don't throw your money away, snd don't waste your time with that in post production. My advice, like the other members of the forum, is that you can put that money toward a good digital recorder. I hope you can take this advice for what it is and not take it badly.
 
Edgehouse said:
I'm going to sync the audio and video with Sony Vegas.
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It won't work. Tape speeds change minutely second by secind. Tape stretches each time you play it. In the analog tape days even multithousand dollar professional recorders needed special equipment and techniques to sync picture and sound.
 
The top end Sony Walkman cassette recorders were used to record audio in sync to film cameras using accessories like a sync pulse generator, or a crystal sync tone generator that recorded a sync track to one of the stereo tracks. This sync track could be read by sound recorders that resolved the sound to mag film, which was film covered with magnetic audio recording media, and which was then cut in sync to picture on a film editing bench, upright editor or flat bed film editor. This is obsolete technology.

If I ran across an old top end Sony Walkman recorder for $20 bucks, I would pick it up, but that would be only as an oddity piece of gear, to possibly use it to do A/D conversion of found cassette audio, and as a back up to the audio cassette component deck I keep around now, for the same reason. There is no way I would use a cassette recorder for audio acquisition today. As posted above, there are just too many digital audio recorders available now that beat the best cassette recorder in almost every way.
 
This has to be a joke. No freaking way did he give the model number to a Sony Walkman cassette recorder. If your serious I am soooooo sorry, but I find it hard to believe.

That being said I would definitely take the advice you heard on not buying this cassette recorder. You will spend far more time trying to make this audio match with your footage and even worst you will have so much air from the use of analog it self that it won't be worth it. Unless this unit's limited quality will play a part in you telling your story I would wait and save up 200 to 300 bucks and buy a cheap yet effective video camera for what you are planning with some kind of audio mic input built in from a local pawn shop. It might not be balanced XLR's (mic inputs) but at least you will be able to get your vision realized without having to waste countless days matching up lack luster audio with video.
 
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I think Edgehouse has abandoned his own thread. I think he was joking. I think we should leave it alone until he at least responds to the advice given. All the info he needs is here already.
 
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