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Best pocket digital recorder for outdoor concerts?

princealfie

princealfie

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What is the best outdoor digital recorder (stereo preferred) to capture live, outdoors concerts? It has to be pocketable of course.
 
i'd say use a flash drive, not a minidisc. there are many flash recorders that'll do uncompressed audio.
 
I've been thinking about getting a little flash recorder for a while now but have beeb hesitant because I don't know what the quality would be like.

How would it fair when having to record a *very loud* live performance?
 
ChrisBrightwell said:
You clearly have a specific task in mind. 🙂

Try posting your budget and goals. We can help ... we just need enough info to do so.
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Budget is <£40. My goals are simply to get the best/clearest possible recording quality of a live band (drums, bass, guitars, vocals) in a crowded indoor venue.
 
anything approaching a decent recording starts w/ mic placement, up near the instruments and away from the crowds. if you're doing a kind of engineering thing for the band (i.e. with their permission), 40 quid will get you a couple mic cables and not much else.

if you're planning on recording on the sly from the crowd, save your money and borrow a video camera to try out as a recording device. that's what a handheld recorder from the crowd will sound like.
 
zimv20 said:
anything approaching a decent recording starts w/ mic placement, up near the instruments and away from the crowds. if you're doing a kind of engineering thing for the band (i.e. with their permission), 40 quid will get you a couple mic cables and not much else.

if you're planning on recording on the sly from the crowd, save your money and borrow a video camera to try out as a recording device. that's what a handheld recorder from the crowd will sound like.
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Sony recorder then? 🙂
 
zimv20 said:
anything approaching a decent recording starts w/ mic placement, up near the instruments and away from the crowds. if you're doing a kind of engineering thing for the band (i.e. with their permission), 40 quid will get you a couple mic cables and not much else.

if you're planning on recording on the sly from the crowd, save your money and borrow a video camera to try out as a recording device. that's what a handheld recorder from the crowd will sound like.
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I know that this is the best way to record a band, but I was simply wondering if you can get a sound that is anywhere near acceptable using just a handheld recorder. I'm a Music and Sound Technologu undergraduate, I swear I'm not completely ignorant in this topic, I've just had no experience whatsoever with handheld recorders 🙂
 
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