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Re: solid state recorders
I've had the Marantz PMD660 since July 2005, and it works ok, BUT:
The on board mics sound good, but it's very sensitive and there is no pad
and
no limiter. Unuseable for live music recording, at least the kind of SPLs
that
I play.
The xlr mic inputs are nice, but no pads and no limiter. arrgghhhh. See
above.
There is no fast forward (ok, there is a 2x ffwd). If you're not placing
markers, because maybe you're trying to play, this makes it hard to do
quick
checks on stuff after the set.
I wish there were an spdif input, as my mixer has an spdif out.
It's nice for field recordings of bugs and birds, but then it's a little
on the
large side. I wouldn't mind if it had limiters.
I want the feature set of my Sony portable DAT from 1989, only smaller,
and
with a built in mic.
And I would like if you could use 1 mic in and 1 line in simultaneously.
The
DAT does that, too.
I've actually had very few successful recordings of live music with this
thing.
Great bugs and birds, though.
-Henry
Art Simon wrote:
>
> Interestingly, the Marantz recorders had some distortion problems.
> Unfortunately, the article was written before the MicroTrack came out.