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Started May 12th, 2005 · 22 replies · Latest reply by mrtunes 18 years, 10 months ago
so i got the mz-rh910 hi-md recorder.
my preliminary review of it so far goes as follows:
the unit seems to be made of the cheapest plastic you can find but oh well that makes it lightweight.
there is no backlight on it, and no remote which would cost a lot more on the model above it.
wave quality recording! just beautiful that it can sample at this rate, but you can only do the usb upload of this wave sample ONCE.
you cannot record at wave quality for more than say 2 hours so you better have some powerful AA batteries with you if you're on a long session, or better yet buy a 2nd gumstick battery.
1 gig discs, these hold a ton of mp3s on them and for wave quality recordings it is about 1 hour 30 minutes which is pretty darn good.
when you hit record it defaults to automatic level adjustment. no one should ever use that and therefore you stumble through the menus when trying to get it going.
you can however adjust recording level while it's recording which is fantastic, no need for an attenuator extra.
i have tried the unit with a few different mics so far, a tiny sony ecm stereo, a nice sennheiser shotgun, a shure sm58 and they all sounded great. high sensitivity means high noise floor of course.
i just got the sound professionals in-ear binaurals and they are sounding great so far. they fit into my ear very nicely, but if i had a bigger ear i couldnt give such a positive review. walking around a bit they didnt transmit too much body noise to my suprise. still testing these out and figuring out what levels are good with it.
this is an exciting time for me to finally have my own portable recording gear. i think that you could put together a really cool backpack of gear and have a studio with the sony mindisc. one idea i have is you could throw a behringer mixer in your bag and show up to a musician's house - run them on the left channel and on the right channel have the music they are tracking with. then go in and seperate them after and you can track people very easily!
Wave recording quality for just over 200 bucks i dont think you can go wrong with this piece.