Re: [linux-audio-user] Portable field recording set-up?

From: Frank Barknecht <fbar@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Oct 09 2005 - 01:48:40 EEST

Hallo,
Paul Davis hat gesagt: // Paul Davis wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 20:42 +0000, S. Massy wrote:
> > For a project of mine, I would need a portable, affordable ($200-250)
> > way to make quality stereo recordings of natural and/or urban
> > environments. Here are the criteria I have defined so far:
> > * sr should be at least 44.1khz
> > * recording should be stereo
> > * if compressed, prefer lossless compression, otherwise, good quality
> > encoding: minimum 160kbps
> > * Should be reasonably portable (i.e compact and battery-operated) and
> > sturdy.
> we just got an iAudio X5. its a disk-based system, not flash. rugged,
> thought not "industrially" so, interacts perfectly with linux (USB mass
> storage device, no special playlist s/w required). plays videos, WAV,
> FLAC, ogg as well as the usual mp3/wma crowd. has line-in, though
> through an "expander" connector.

But this iAudio only records mp3, doesn't it? Which sucks for field
recordings especially.

(Expensive) alternatives might be these:
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MicroTrack2496-main.html
http://www.edirol.com/products/info/r1.html
or go for a really small laptop.

Ciao

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Received on Sun Oct 9 04:15:05 2005

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