Any suggestions for a voice/audio recorder?

Any thoughts? What do you use now? What do you like? What to stay away from?

Thanks.

 

Here's a start:

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/1116698/

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/1138729/

 

I bought an Olympus (can't remember the model number) digital recorder a couple of weeks ago. It was about $60. It can download the recorded audio to my PC. It doesn't transcribe it, but it'll save it. It was a good purchase.

 

I've had a Sony minidisc recorder, which is what many radio people use, for several years. It's expensive, but the sound quality is the best. And it records onto discs (like cassettes), meaning you sort of have an unlimited amount of recording time. The only drawback is the price.

 

First and foremost, make sure whatever you guy is compatible with your operating system. Secondly, I love my Olympus VN-9600. At least I loved it until I got Vista on the laptop and discovered the two weren't compatible.

 

I've had a Sony IC Recorder for two years. It's pretty basic and set me back about $60 in 2005. I'm sure, if they still make it, it's much cheaper now. I've never had a problem with it.

 

Get an iPod and get the recorder option for your iPod.

Great quality. Keep it on the iPod...or easy storage of files in iTunes...

The iPhone also doubles as a recorder. See if the shop will comp that lol...

 

This one is just under $50 at Wal-Mart. The reason it's my favorite, is it comes with a USB cable and once you're done with the interview, you just download it to your computer. It saves it as a mp3 with nothing to load onto your computer or anything like that.

I also bought the rechargeable batteries from Sony. It does chew through them quite fast. But the batteries with the charger were only about $15.

I think it was all well worth the investment.

 

This thing works like a charm for me.

 

Norm? That you?

 

For Mac OSX users, the Olympus DS-2 is terrific. Very tough, very small, very light. Lots of file space.