Time to buy a portable digital recorder! Advice needed!

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:53 pm

I can't seem to go wrong when I post at Recording.org for advice on new gear purchases. So here we go again!

I am ready to buy a standalone portable digital recorder for ENG, sound effects/walla capturing for film, quick and dirty concert/practice recordings and other field work.

Budget: Less than $1000.

I have been considering these:

M-Audio Microtrack 24/96
Sound Pros GigaTracker
Marantz PMD671 w/RC600 remote
Tascam HDP2

Right now, I am leaning towards the Marantz. But does anyone know if they have improved the preamps at all? I heard they were kinda noisy for SFX but were decent for ENG/interviews.

The Sound Pro kit looks pretty nice, but I know nothing about it. Anyone use their recorders? How are they?

Feel free to express the pros/cons of any of this gear or any other possible solutions I may have missed.

Thanks a lot everyone!! Thumbs Up

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:21 am

Hi. I heard some recordings recently of some Peluso CEMc6 mics thru an Edirol recorder called the R4 . Now I don't usually go to Edirol for sound, but these recordings sounded absolutely fantastic. Try this link: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=peluso

go to each recording link, and make sure its the r4 he used. There's also the R1 which is a less endowed device.

http://www.edirol.com/products/r4/index.html

Good luck.

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